ok, so the assigned blog for this week is 9-11. yep.
im gonna do that copy and paste thing for the answers of the 8th grade review, like 'mr' bruns said to do.
5-1 test question answers:
native americans in the plains were nomadic, and lived off the land. lived in small family units in tepees. women cooked and sewed, decorated, etc. men hunted, learned to fight, built things, etc. grandparents watched over young children.
Settlers moved into the great plains looking for gold, and to start new lives (again)
the government made lots of treaties (which they broke) and used force to kick the NA's out.
cowboys worked 10-14 hrs a day year-round. srping round-up, then branded new calves, and drove them north to the railroads.
5-2 (havent taken all the notes on this one yet....) so, continued before i get the answers here.
the morrill act of 1862 and 1890 and the hatch act of 1887 gave land grants to states for a series of agriculture experiment stations. these grants were usually connected to universities. also known as the Land Grant College Act, was signed by pres lincoln. second morrill act (for 1890) gave equal funding for white colleges and other racial colleges. those who had already used up their funding on white schools had to become co-racial.
farmers had to get loans for equipment, bad when crops did bad....etc. (one of the answers here, farmers aften went into debt) Felt threats from railroads putting them into bankrupcy. bad weather, farmers were always competing with each other and monopolies, couldnt find help, had low wages, etc.
railroads were charging farmers extra for both short and long trips unfairly.
so, 5-2 question answers...
railroads provided jobs and transportation. homestead act gave lots of land to lots of people, got them to move west.
challenges on the great plains were conflict with native americans. lots of work to be done, people lived in dugouts and soddies, not a lot of wood. farming techniques were simple at first, but became easier with inventions.
farmers had lots of problems with debt. railroads werent pricing fairly for transportation, weather made poor crops, etc. mostly money problems.
5-3 notes
problems farmers faced on the great plains. who were the populace and what were their beliefs.
railroads werent making things easy for farmers, government made new money that wasnt worth as much as it used to be, had to mortgage their land to buy more land, then had to pay back more than they borrowed,,,,debt, basically. and crops werent doing well still.
railroads kept rising prices.....rich people used them for cheap, because they used them more often,
Farmer's Alliance- people got tired of the unfairness, so they formed groups (like the Grange, led by Olvier Hudson Kelley) so they had larger numbers and were more of a threat to railroads to get the prices lowered.
so, 5-3 questions/....later.... they were missing a person, so this isnt everything. plus its 6-1's turn now. gotta get ready. shannon goes first tho, haha. so i probably wont go today. i'll take notes on shannon's tho. but this blog is longer than yesterday's...wow.
6-1 notes.
Q: cause of industrial revolution and effects of inventions
start if the industrail revolution. there were lots of natural resources- government deployed laissez-faire views...aka, power to the people (in businesses) there was a growing urban poputaion, so the market was doing well.
Black Gold, crude oil. native americans had used it for medicine and ceremonies. europeans ignored it because they didnt know what to do with it and it was hard to get. kerosene was used in lamps in the 1840's. found a way to drill orl, thus starting the oil rush.
Steel- made from iron and the extra minerals in it. wasnt practical until methods of creation were improved, then it was used often. Ex- used to build railroad tracks, barbed wire, bridges, new, stronger buildings bases and frames (so they could be taller, had new design).
so here i go. unlss we dont have time.
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