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What is the Frontier |
Unsettled Land Colorado to Texas |
Unowned.... Col to Tex |
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1850-71 Gov gave TONS of tracks of land to companies to build railroads. 1869 they have made the First transcontinental railroads The Central Pacific- goes from East and in Sacramento The Union Pacific- from West in Omaha Where the 2 railroads connected in. In what State? |
Utah |
hat you... Backwards... |
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The Railroad Builders of the Transcontinental rail road were mostly which immigrants? |
Irish and Chinese |
JSE and Schonne(Similar to the Philippines) |
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The Homstead Act of 1862 did what? |
Offered anyone who would live in the Frontier 160 Acres of land.
And to use all that land for Agriculture for 5 yrs. |
Free land for farming anyone?
80 × 2 acres |
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After the Homestead Act was passed, 400,000 settlers moved to the land and tried to farm it.
These people who moved to the land were known as what?
The AA that (lived in the South but moved to the West) would also move there were called what?
And why did the AA want to move to the West? |
Homsteaders
Exodusters. They wanted to farm their own land for the first time. |
People who write➡ Writers People who drive➡ Drivers People who Homstead➡ ........... People People who Exodusted➡ .......... |
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Why did the Homstead Act failed?
Since it failed they decided to just give it to Cattlemen and Miners. |
Only 10% of the land was actually used by farmers |
Not alot.... |
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In 1890, to encourage people to move west Oklahoma started giving out HUGE acres of land.
How much and for how long? |
2 MILLION ACRES
For 24 hrs. |
2,000,000,000
1 Day |
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1850-1900 the Pop of people lining in the west increased by 30%.
What was life like for settlers? |
Life was tough |
Not EZ |
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Since there wsd no trees in the Great plains the South so people had to build Soddys and Sods
What are Soddys and Sods? |
Soddys holes in Hills
Sods grass square homes |
Soddys are holes in...
Sods are homes made from grass... |
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Soddys are warm in the Winter but the only downside of them is that... |
There was no AIR |
O^2 |
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Homesteaders had to make EVERYRHING THEY NEEDED.
The husband hunts while the wife did what? |
(Mostly wife) Cooking
Laundry
Caring for kids |
Wife stuff |
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Some inventions that made agriculture easier was the ...... Which cut the wheat faster.
And ..... .... Broke up the Sod |
The Reaper cut the wheat faster.
The Steel Sod broke the SOD |
💀💀 OW.
Steel Dos |
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The Moril Act did what? |
Help establish Agriculture College to make new, better ways to farm |
Better farming Farming cooleg... |
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Farmers being in dept. (Greedy) because of buying new equipment.
Prices of Crops.⬇⬇ ➡ loosing Money & Can't pay loans
Solution: Bonanza Farms.
What do BFs do? |
1 HUGE CROP OF LAND
For one type of crop. |
One GIANT POTATO |
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From 1855 to 1890 a really bad Drought hit Bonanza farms were destroyed.
Farmers had to ship Their crops which did what? |
In dept |
Owing money to someone |
