Monday- Discussed forum posts. Started a new project today. My group has chapter 5-1. How did the US change during the late 1800's and early 1900's?
Tuesday- Worked on presentation
Wednesday- Worked on presentation
Thursday- Presentations started today
Friday- Presentations cont.
5-2 Dakota, Jake, Ron, and Logan-
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
- Took 250 year for settlers to turn 400 million acres of trees a prairies
- Government gave away $98 million for the homestead act
- Rough terrain(hard to plow)
Women's work
- Women often worked with men in fields
- Worked in schools and churches
- Doctoring
- Food
- Built houses
Farmer's in debt-
- Machinery cost
- Loans
- Bonanza Farms
- Drought
- Bankruptcy due to drought
Government support for settlement-
- Homestead act- 160 acres of land to over 600,000 people
Closing of the Frontier-
- Henry Washburn was sent to explore
- Set aside Yellowstone which was created in 1872
- Created to show people what the land looked like before people took it over(also the point of any national parks)
Agricultural Education
- Morrill Act- 1862-1890 gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges
- Hatch Act-1877 Established agricultural experiment station in inform farmers of new developments
- What they discovered grains for arid soil
- Dry farming methods which helped soil keep moisture
- These things helped eastern plains become "the breadbasket of the nation"
- Iowa State was set up by the Hatch Act. along with many other colleges
- Sod houses
- Steel plows
- Water-pumping windmills
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