Chapter 17-The West: Exploiting an Empire Time Period: 1850-1900 1. Beyond the Frontier -line of white settlement at MO timber country by 1840s What’s in the West? What land? -“The Great Plains”/Prairie Plains: rich soil and good rainfall (Wisconsin down to Texas) -High Plains: rough‚ semiarid (Montana down to NMex.) -Rockies: formidable barrier (Alaska to NMex.) -Western Basin: home to many NA‚ desert‚ held in by the Cascades and Sierra Nevada‚ MOST travelers here (Idaho and Utah)
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year wasn’t exactly what I had become familiar with throughout the previous years. Pulling up to the Colorado ski resort I think to myself how different skiing on the steep slopes of a mountain is going to be compared to the moderate hills of the plains that I am used to. I open the car door and‚ without warning‚ get smacked in the face by the cold‚ crisp air of the mountains. The pile of thick clothes falling off my lap reminds me that I need to bundle up in order to stay warm. After strapping
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historical time period • Homestead 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
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and men is the references to the great depression · Another is the biblical links Steinbeck uses throughout the novella · After World War I‚ economic and ecological forces brought many rural poor and migrant agricultural workers from the Great Plains states‚ such as Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ and Kansas‚ to California. · a seven-year drought that began in 1931‚ turned once fertile grasslands into a desertlike region known as the Dust Bowl. · What is important about the title? · What is the famous reference
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berries…) ARCHAIC HUNTERS AND GATHERERS Archaic Indians hunted with spears but also used traps‚ nets‚ and hooks. Most Archaic Indians migrate from place to place to harvest plants and animals. Did not establish permanent villages. GREAT PLAINS BISON HUNTERS Folsom hunters moved all the time to maintain contact with their prey
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In the 1930 large areas of Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ Kansas‚ New Mexico‚ and Colorado were hit by one of the worst dust storms in America’s history.The dust storm destroyed the land and most of the population‚ almost everyone packed up and moved west. From the 1900 to 1930 families built farms in an area of mostly grassland so crops were hard to grow. In 1931 a drought spread across the middle of the nation‚ they were already suffering from the stock market crash of 1929 and the great depression. From 1931
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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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Mound 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
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Homestead Act of 1862 provided many new opportunities for farmers to get an abundance of Western land in an affordable manner. While this was great for many farming families who got suitable land‚ there was a different opinion from those in the Great Plains. They faced great challenges posed by Mother Nature‚ especially drought. The droughts brought devastation to the crops‚ and then to the farmers who couldn’t make enough money. However‚ the farmers were able to make many adaptations that allowed
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The 1880s were a very difficult period for the farmers in the Great Plains and the West. The United States was going through many changes economically and socially. The farmers suffered most through these changes. Farmers faced droughts‚ insect plagues‚ and living in sod houses because of the climate in the Great Plains. Many of the farmers also had debts to pay but didn’t have any money to pay them with because of the lack of silver in circulation and over-production of cash crops. Because of the
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