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Notes: Settling the Western Frontier
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LG: Explain how and why people settled the West from the mid-1800’s to the Early 1900’s?
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1. Gaining Land to Settling Land
a. The 19th Century
i. 1800-1860 = Gaining Land
- Manifest Destiny
ii. 1860-1900 = Settling the Land
- Getting people to live on the land.
- Going west and developing land.
b. How did people go West? Why???
i. Nothing there … well, kinda.
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c. The Western Frontier
i. The openness, and the good and the bad of the American West (a.k.a. the Wild West).
- Indians, cowboys, outlaws, vast amounts of land, farmers, OPENnESS.
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2. Railroads Open the West
A. Massive govt. land grants for laying RR lines.
i. RR company got 10 to 20 sq. miles of land per 1 mile of track laid down.
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
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B. Importance of RR’s.
i. MORE stuff moves FASTER in ALL directions!
Raw Materials Shipped Back East
Info! People!Goods! Material!
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3. Govt. Support for Settlement
A. Homestead Act, 1862-1900
i. 160 acres
ii. Farm on it for 5 years.
iii. 600,000 families
iv. New Life?!?!?!? Start new?
***Misuse…
Only 10% used by intended families.
- Many sold land for own gain.
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Alright, You need to build a house…
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4. Living on the Plains
A. *** After reading this quote, write what you think moving to the prairies and living on them was like.
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“I think, as much courage as it took to hang onto the reins that day, it took more to live twenty-four hours at a time, month in and out, on the lonely and lovely prairie, without giving up to the loneliness.”
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4. Living on the Plains
A. *** After reading this quote, write what you think living on the prairies was like.
B. Many lived in Soddies… Houses of sod.
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C. Technology helps to make land productive!
i. Grain Drills
<------------ ii. Barbed Wire Fences-
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iii. Steel Windmill Pump ---------------->
iv. Steel Plow
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D. Morrill Act, 1862 & 1890
i. Land for agricultural colleges.
- Focus of farming & land development.
ii. Fund research and development.
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5. Reasons Settling the West
*** List 5 Reasons Why You Think People Moved Out West???
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
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