Early Plain Settlers and Women's Roles
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- Created on: 08-02-17 22:08
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- Early Plains Settlers and Women's Roles
- Those looking for land settled on the Plains
- In the 1850's some settlers were on the Low Plains
- Settlements gradually moved along the rivers and onto drier land between- advancing onto lands previously bypassed by the wagon trails
- The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed 160 acres of land free to settlers
- Occupied it for 5 years
- From the 1860's onwards the transcontinental railways encouraged more settlement
- In the 1850's some settlers were on the Low Plains
- Life on the Plains wasn't easy
- People made do
- Houses were made from clods of turd (sod houses)
- Farmers paid to borrow expensive steel ploughs for the first and hardest breaking of the prairie soil
- Dried buffalo dung and cow-pats were used as fuel.
- Conditions were very difficult
- Little or no wood for building or fuel
- Land was too hard
- Lack of water
- Wind and extremes of climate battered, froze and baked the land
- People made do
- Life for women
- Responsible for housework and the education of their children
- Maintained gardens, and looked after animals
- Those looking for land settled on the Plains
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