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Settling the Great Plains
Between 1862 and 1900
Thousands of people poured in to settle the Great Plains
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Objective
• Identify the factors that drew people to settle on the Great Plains.
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Homesteaders
Factors that drew people to settle on the
Great Plains
• Homestead Act• Railroad Land Sales• Hope for a better life
By 1890 there were 5 million people living on the Great Plains
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Life on the Family Farm
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Life on the Family Farm
Dramatic Differences
• Shortage of wood
• Extreme weather changes
• Insect swarms
• Prairie fires
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Shortage of Wood
Plenty of Sod (sod-soil in which thick grass grows)
Advantages of Sod Homes• Cool in Summer• Warm in Winter• Didn’t catch fire easily
Disadvantages of Sod Homes• Hard to keep clean• Leaky roofs
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Extreme Weather Changes
• Summer sun baked the groundmaking the prairie catch fire more easily
• Hailstorms came oftensometimes ruining entire crops
• Winter snow and freezing temperaturesmade life very difficult
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Insect Swarms
• Grasshoppers attacked the Great Plains in 1874
• Millions of ate anything that was green
• Destroying entire crops in minutes
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New Technology saves the Family Farm
• New models of windmills
-lets farmers pump water from hundreds of feet below ground
• Stronger plows help homesteaders cut through thick sod
• Harvesting machines make farm work easier
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Your Life in a Soddy
• Look under your desk • Get out the journal and the bag of sod• Write ”Personal Journal of & Your Name” on the
label on the front of the journal• Beginning on the front of the first page create a
journal entry as if you were living in a soddy on the prairie on October 31, 1885.
• The entry should be in your best handwriting• The entry should contain at least three (3) good
descriptive paragraphs
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Brochure Project
• This week we will each work to create a brochure about life on the Great Plains
• You will use the computers and the program Microsoft Word to create your own brochure
• Brochure due Oct. 13th