Great Plains

During the Gilded Age in America, a new movement of techology and wealth spread throughout the country. Industrialization rapidly swept through the nation and urbanized many western areas including the Great Plains and California. White colonist took this as an opportunity to expand westward though this brought destruction to the native americans, while poverty and overpopulation in Japan encouraged migration to America to find their own riches. During the time period of the Gilded Age, the…

The first reason the Dust Bowl negatively affected the economy is farmers are going out of business.For example, ¨The massive dust storms forced farmers out of business.”(Amadeo). It was hard to farm with all the droughts and wind from the dust storm, the dust would cover their equipment and their wasn’t any rain with all of the droughts.So many farmers were going out of business, and they were greatly affected. “ In order to increase productivity, farmers mechanized production and cultivated…

caused severe dust storms that damaged the agriculture and ecology of the United States Great Plains. This was due to the extreme drought only made life more difficult. It affected many ranchers and farmers in the South like Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. This lead people to either staying with their farm and sticking it out or leaving everything behind to find a new job. In the book, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930’s, by Donald Worster her discusses the dust bowl and how it affected…

before the next wave hit.“The dust was beginning to make living things sick. Animals were found dead in the fields, their stomachs coated with two inches of dirt. People spat up clods of dirt as big around as a pencil. An epidemic raged throughout the Plains: they called it dust pneumonia.”("Surviving the Dust Bowl"). Dust pneumonia was a big issue during the dust bowl. Lives were lost daily and livestock was found dead because with every breath they would breathe in the dust. Because of the…

historical event. The Dust Bowl occurred during the time of the economic disaster of the Great Depression. It mentions how daily events like the sun shinning were changed by this disaster. It talked about how peopls’ lives became different due to this disaster. It mentions the various people who wrote books about this disaster. The film explains the change in climate that encouraged people to settle the Southern Plains.…

The Dust Bowl In the 1930’s and the early 1940’s, the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States suffered a severe drought in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and Kansas. Once a semi-arid grassland, the treeless plains became home to thousands of settlers when, in 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act. Most of the settlers farmed their land or raised cattle. The farmers plowed the prairie grasses and planted dryland wheat. As the demand for wheat…

After the Civil War, many people moved to the Far West due to its wet and lush territory, high mountains, flat plains, treeless prairies and great forests. These different societies that developed in the “Far West” included the Western Tribes, the Spanish, Chinese immigrants and white settlers. Firstly, the Plains Indians, the most powerful of the Indian tribes, adapted to the new environment of the Far West by hunting buffalo, which was a big part of their livelihood as they used it for their…

Sandoz used facts, documents, and other informational sources for her book, Love Song to the Plains. She was highly intelligent and wanted to cover both of the views of women and men during the Westward Expansion. Though, her book was not as “feministic” as Kingston’s book. There is a feel of pride for her country and how her fellow man has grown…

a century, the bison population went from roughly 60 million in 1800 to 14 million in 1870 (Lott 2003). Some people call this time, the "Great Slaughter." The military had issued orders to kill the bison. The thought of the government was that if you killed the bison, you killed the Native Americans. The hides were also great for crossing the freezing Plains of the United States, when going West was the thing to do (Folwer 2003). There were no rules for killing the bison. In fact, it was…

with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region” (Steinbeck 468). He is describing the overfishing that was occurring in the Sea of Cortez. This situation has obvious parallels to Native American behavior. For example, the Great Plain Native Americans overhunted resulting in extreme declines in the population of Buffalo. Steinbeck also wrote, “Our curiosity was not limited, but was as wide and horizonless as that of Darwin or Agassiz or Linnaeus or Pliney. We wanted to…