Weekly Blogs 9/4-9/8

MONDAY- no school

TUESDAY- review

WEDNESDAY- test

THURSDAY- test

FRIDAY- Why did people move to the West/Great Plains? farming, cattle ranching, gold, hunting, buffalo, deer, rabbits

Manifest Destiny- God given right to move west

Cattle Ranching- cattle were high demand and needed food

Sheepherding- clothing

Reaper- made harvest quicker

Other inventions- plow, windmill, barbed wire

Homestead Act- move west-they got 160 acres (600,000 families)

Gold and Silver Mining- California, Nevada, South Dakota, Colorado, Alaska How? panning, shakers

Union(Omaha) & Central (California) Pacific- Chinese people (workers) came to California

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