Today we started our presentations.
The first presentation was 5-2.
It was settling on the great plains.
Pacific railroad Central
-transcontinental
-majority workers are Chinese desent
-companies recruited
-did dangerous work
-Utah meeting point in 1869
-wedding of the rail promentary point Utah
-golden spike
Homestead Act
-Abraham Lincoln
-160 acres of land if they stayed there for five years for free was given
-Cattlers and miners used land
-not all plots equal in size
-Oklahoma was given to over 2 million people
Duggouts and Soddies
-built into hills
-helped with climate
-rain leaked into the house
-Women help the men in the feilds and shaved sheep and cleaned and cooked and raised the children.
Agricultural Education
-supported by national government
-ground dry
-Hatch Act of 1887 allowed exprimentations
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