Today in class Mr. Bruns told us what our assigned blog is on. Its on the 9/11 tragedy. We also did out presentations.
5-2 Settling on the great plains- railroads moving west. congress passed the pacific tailroad bill railroad which gave public lands and funds to buld a transcontinental railroad. the two groups were building the railroad starrted in different parts of the country on was the central pacific tailtoad would start laying tracks from the missiouri river west. work on the railroad was hard and sometimes dangeroud. it was hard to attracked workers.
while construction both companies raced to see who could lay the most tracksearch day.
the day that both tracks met was in 1869 at the golden pike in utah
homestead act.
-signed by abraham lincoln in 1862
-gave rights to any citizen to have 160 acres of land if stayed for 5 years
-why do people move west. it gave free land and attracked poeple who wanted to farm.
-people were cattlers miners wood cuters
-only about ten percent of the land was actually setttled by the familes in was intended for. most people left and did stay. ment for people who were poor
-in 1889 the governemnt redid part of the act and there was a major land give away in the state of olahoma in leddss than a day over 2 million people took land in the state but some people claimed land before the goverment opened it so the state.
doubts and soddies
- settlers built thier gomes into hills because there werent many trees to just buld a how.
- this had its advantage and disadvantages.
- advantages it was hot in the windter and cold in the summer
- disadvatnage every time it rained water leaked into the house
- what struggles did pepple face on the great plains?
- the woment worked along side the men in the fields plowing and planting thingh
- they also shaved the sheep so they could use the sheeps wool to make cloth
- besides that they did the cleaning cooking and they raised the children
- on the great plains women did alot more work, they were hard workers
agricultureal education
- supported by the national governemnt
- it was because of the morrril act of the 1862 and 1890 allowed land to be givin to states so they would help finance agricultural collages
- the hatch act of 1887 allowed agricultural experiment stations to help farmers develope land
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