The tall grass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America‚ with fire as its primary periodic disturbance. In the past‚ tall grass prairies covered a large portion of the American Midwest‚ just east of the Great Plains‚ and portions of the Canadian Prairies. They flourished in areas with rich loess soils and moderate rainfall of around 30 to 35 inches per year. To the east were the fire-maintained eastern savannas. In the northeast‚ where fire was infrequent and periodic wind throw represented
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Cassandra Rollins HIS125: The West Week 2: Linda Rhoades-Swartz January 18‚ 2015 1. How did the western settlement‚ particularly in terms with railroad expansion and farming‚ lead to inevitable conflict with the Native Americans? Highlight at least one engagement in your answer. In 1862‚ the passing of the Homestead Act awarded 160 acres to settlers who engaged the land for at minimum five years. This indication to the making of above 300‚000 ranches built‚ and where ultimately two million
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Act • Protective tariff • Trusts • Munn v. Illinois • Gold standard • Bimetallic standard • The Crime of 1873 • Greenbacks • Bland-Allison Act • Matthew Perry • William Seward • Morill Act • Great Plains • Cow country • Long Drive • Cattle towns • Wild West • Ghost town • Great American Desert • Barbed wire • Exodusters • Polygamy • Dry farming • Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States • Yellowstone • “Reservation wars” • Sand Creek • Blackfoot • Dawes
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aquifer. There are two types of aquifers unconfined and confined. The aquifer covers an area of 174‚ 000 square miles across all eight states from Dakota to Texas. It also covers is about 250‚000 square miles in the great plain region. The
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most stayed. The home is where the heart is. These are some of the many things that happened during the Dust Bowl‚ but what caused the Dust Bowl? The ecological economic phenomenon known as the Dust Bowl that occurred in the 1930’s on the southern plains of the U.S.‚ devastated the wheat farmers and their families and was caused by human migration‚ weather patterns‚ and farming practices. The Dust Bowl was caused because of the human migration to towns and farms. A severe drought in the 1890’s
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million acres. For thousands of years this land had been well suited for grass‚ bison‚ wind‚ and regular droughts‚ but the lack of wheat fromRussia in World War I caused a world-wide shortage‚ inflating prices so high that growing wheat on the southern plains became a gold lottery. While wheat cost 35 cents a bushel to grow and sold for 80 cents a bushel in 1910‚ by 1917 it sold for two dollars a bushel. As Egan says‚ back then‚ this was a fortune. And the money was so good and so easy that‚ between 1917
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Brooke Lucas Professor Ramirez History 147 30 October 2013 Essay Question 1) How was the policy of “separate but equal” established and what exactly did it mean? Provide specific examples of how “separate but equal” was applied in the United States. How it started: Plessy vs. Ferguson case. Plessy: 7/8ths white 1/8th black boarded an all white train car. The conductor asked of his race‚ so he told him. He sent him to the all colored railcar. Plessy refused and he was immediately arrested.
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builders location they had to face many environmental challenges‚ first the Appalachian Mountain affected the amount of contact they had with other civilizations and made trade hard because they would have to travel over the mountains. The Great Plains provided great land for the Mound builders to plant and cultivates the civilizations agricultural produce such as the following: Sunflowers‚ goose foot‚ erect knot wood‚ and May grass. The Mound builder civilization has many rivers that ran through its
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In many ways‚ colonists and Europeans acted as agents of change to early America. At the time when Columbus arrived‚ and in the years following‚ the American continent was a type of natural paradise compared to the highly inhabited and structured countries of Europe that explorers had come from. While the abundance of resources did influence the way in which Europeans treated the land‚ the predetermined economic mindsets carried over from a more resource-deprived Europe worked simultaneously to promote
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1893 explained the views of the Great West and how the Frontier changed the society of America. The Frontier Line changed political views of the Great West‚ known as‚ “the existence of an area of free land.” The frontier fortified a boundary line that runs through the dense populations‚ and the meeting points between savagery and civilization. Civilization entered the wilderness in the 1880s. The frontier was found in mining camps and ranches in the Great Plains. The Plymouth pilgrims settled
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