Work day! I needed this! Here's an outline of my section-5-2:
My section is pretty much about the expansion of the west. It starts the railroads. The government spent about half a billion dollars on the land, tracks, and people working. Next, came the homestead act which brought in many imigrants.
Then, the plains come in with hardships like no other. Such as rain, floods, droughts, blizzards, famine, plague of locusts, fires, raids from Native Indians. For the weather (or at least most) dugouts and soddies are good. They're good because in the winter they're warm, in the summer they're cool, they're safe from fires, but...floods were major for they were horrible in rain.
Finally, there's the farmers and how the most major problem for them was debt! Sometimes the stock was high but other times it was dangerously low. They would also morgage out land so they can buy more land, crops, and equipment. In other words...debt got bad!
Comments