Ashley,1889 major land giveaway that was in now called Oklahoma. it's called the sooner state, because the people owned the land sooner then they should haveWithin one day over 2 million acres claimed.Henry D. Washburn & Nathaniel P Langford protected the wilderness.1872 yellowstone national park was created.1893 essay written by Frederick Turner .. reason why he wrote it. everything had been settled, they started getting worried. - The spirit about moving westward. - ?U.S. started taking land around the world after?Challenges on the Plains;Droughts, floods, fires, blizzards, Locust Plaugues, Occasional raids by outlaws and indians.homes of the plains;-trees weren't around, so they had to live in dirt homes-Soddies and dugouts,(into the side of a hill)Warm in the winter, cool in the summer. Soddy offers little light or air.Homes for snakes, insects, and other pests.Firproof but leaked a lot when it rained.Womens work on the plains;Outside with men, planting and harvesting cropsShearing sheep and carding wool for clothes, helped did wells and carry big buckets.canned fruits and veg. skilled in doctoring. sponsered schools and churches, cause they like funding for organizations.Farm equipment.;1837; John deere invented steel plow.1847; cyrus began to mass produce reapingsteel plow was important, cut through the hard soils.&barbwire fenced off certain lands, and there wasn't a lot of wood.. 1830 took 183 minutes to produce buchel of grainswith machine, ten minutes for one bushel.Morrill act;Introduced by Justin smith morrill.-it gave land to states to help finance ag colleges.wanted education in all social classes.gave each state 30,000 acres of public land.Land was sold and money went to colleges.Farmers in debt;went into debt because machinery started getting more pricey, they had to borrow money to buy it.Wheat prices high;could afford more.Wheat prices low; had to make more wheat.1870s Bonanza farms created by railroad companies.Bananza farms,farms of 15,000 - 50,000 acres.bonanza farms couldn't be so flexible.Shipping grains.railroads charged more in the west than the east charged more to the west then the east.because of the lack of compitionsometimes charged more for short distances.farmers grew more grain and bought more land.put farmers in more debt.Chelsea Schwery Chapter 5-3; Farmers and the populist movementPrices of crops were falling and farmers often mortgaged their farms.The farmers had to pay a lot of money to transport grain from one place to another.government put more money into circulation, -printed out money just for people to use.. like to banks.Prices of goods, go up. farmers wanted inflation, they wanted there crop prices to go up so they could get more money.
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