American West : homesteaders problems and solutions
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- Created on: 12-06-17 14:41
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- The greatest problem which faced homesteaders was the climate.’
- Climate: There was extremes of weather. Scorching hot summers & Freezing cold winters. It was hard for homesteaders to live in these conditions
- Dry farming - this was a method used by which they conserved the water in the soil through ploughing soon after heavy rain.
- There was a lack of water and very hard earth
- Windpumps - these provided water to the land and homesteaders
- Shortage of building materials, so there houses couldn't be as nice as they wanted them to be. usually made of sod.
- Better machinery - stronger ploughs were built that would churn earth
- Prairie fires and plagues - these could destroy crops in no time at all.
- New crops - they grew harder types of crops such as turkey red wheat which could survive the conditions better
- Protecting the crops - especially against cattle trails.
- Fencing the land
- Arguably the most important factor was the climate as it applied to everyone as there was nothing that the could do to stop it.
- Climate: There was extremes of weather. Scorching hot summers & Freezing cold winters. It was hard for homesteaders to live in these conditions
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