Settleing the Great Plains 5.2- Farmers came upon different weather conditions that made it hard for them. They also didn't have anything to make houses out of, no big trees, they'd build their homes into the Earth. Sod and Dug out homes were common. Everybody had to help around the farm because there wasn't any neighbors to come and help if they needed it. The plow, harrow, and reaper really helped time wise for the farmers with farming and harvesting. Many farmers wanted these tools, so they would borrow money sometimes but most people couldn't pay back the money so debt was a big problem. Homestead Act gave 160 acres to new european farmers and land speculators would sell the land for a big profit, and it would benifit the land speculator and not really the farmer. The rail roads enabled goods/people to go from east to west or west to east. Silver, gold, goods, people west to east. Farming supplies, other goods, east to west.The Expasion of Industry 6.1- What items/things allowed the Industrial Revolution to take off in the late 1800s? US had a ton of natural resources, Government support for bussiness Government was very laze faire, growing urban population that provided cheap labor if there was all the laws that are in place now were in place then it may not have kicked off as well, and cities provided markets to sell there goods because there were so many people.-Breann Lehr
Comments