Homesteaders-History
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- Homesteaders-History
- An English Homesteader would be called a farmer.
- The government acts that enabled people to move to the west were called:
- The Timber culture act: 1873
- The homestead act 1862
- The Desert Land act:1877
- People moved to the plains after the civil war.
- Newly freed black slaves looking for a fresh start.
- Demobbed soldiers and their families looking to rebuild their lives.
- The transcontinental railway made a difference to the settlements on the plains.
- It made it easier for the homesteaders to move on to the plains.
- The governments sold land either side of the railway off cheap.
- It made it easier for the homesteaders to move on to the plains.
- Problems of living on the plains.
- Disease was caught from the pests living inside the sod houses.
- Water and wood shortages made it difficult to drink, wash and to keep warm and sheltered.
- Barbed wire was invented by Joesph Giddens in 1874- this helped to divide and fence up the land with out the use of wood.
- Water and wood shortages made it difficult to drink, wash and to keep warm and sheltered.
- Problems with Farming on the plains:
- Extremes of weather, for example: the drought of 1859-1860.
- Natural hazards; grasshoppers desecrating crops
- The prairie grass was too hard to plough through.
- Inventions that prevented farming problems:
- Homesteaders-History
- An English Homesteader would be called a farmer.
- The government acts that enabled people to move to the west were called:
- The Timber culture act: 1873
- The homestead act 1862
- The Desert Land act:1877
- People moved to the plains after the civil war.
- Newly freed black slaves looking for a fresh start.
- Demobbed soldiers and their families looking to rebuild their lives.
- The transcontinental railway made a difference to the settlements on the plains.
- It made it easier for the homesteaders to move on to the plains.
- The governments sold land either side of the railway off cheap.
- It made it easier for the homesteaders to move on to the plains.
- Problems of living on the plains.
- Disease was caught from the pests living inside the sod houses.
- Barbed wire was invented by Joesph Giddens in 1874- this helped to divide and fence up the land with out the use of wood.
- Problems with Farming on the plains:
- Extremes of weather, for example: the drought of 1859-1860.
- Natural hazards; grasshoppers desecrating crops
- The prairie grass was too hard to plough through.
- Inventions that prevented farming problems:
- The Sod Buster- A new plough to break throigh prairie grass.
- Dry Farming- Plough the earth after snow or rain to lock the moister in the ground.
- Grow the right crop- Turkey red wheat would grow well in extreme climates.
- Windmills.
- Most homesteaders had a windmill because it span all year round and was used to pump water up from the ground.
- A successful female homesteader.
- Carries out the 'men's work'
- Very hard work and must adapt to surroundings quickly.
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- The Sod Buster- A new plough to break throigh prairie grass.
- Dry Farming- Plough the earth after snow or rain to lock the moister in the ground.
- Grow the right crop- Turkey red wheat would grow well in extreme climates.
- Homesteaders-History
- Windmills.
- Most homesteaders had a windmill because it span all year round and was used to pump water up from the ground.
- A successful female homesteader.
- Carries out the 'men's work'
- Very hard work and must adapt to surroundings quickly.
- Untitled
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