Thesis: The transcontinental railroad greatly increased Westward expansion in the United States of America during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The history of the United States has been influenced by England in many ways. In the second half of the 1800’s‚ the railroad‚ which was invented in England‚ had a major effect on Western expansion in the United States. ’Railroads were born in England‚ a country with dense populations‚ short distances between cities‚ and large financial
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to move westward after the Civil War by federal legislation such as the Homestead Act‚ which gave 160 acres of land to American citizens who were committed to settling on the land and who could pay the $10 registration fee. However‚ farming on the plains proved much more difficult than many settlers thought it would be. Thousands of blacks moved west after the Civil War to escape life in the South; mining‚ ranching‚ and lumbering also attracted settlers to the West. This westward expansion greatly
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A&E Television Networks‚ 24 Aug. 2012. Web. 08 Feb. 2013. Allen‚ John L. "New World Encounters: Exploring The Great Plains of North America." Great Plains Quarterly (1993): 69-123. Http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1749&context=greatplainsquarterly. University of Nebraska. Web. "DUST BOWL." DUST BOWL. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2013. "DUST BOWL." DUST BOWL. N.p
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presenting an array of speeches‚ letters‚ documents‚ and drawings that tell compelling stories about the Plain Indians in the 1800’s. His introduction alone has just the right level of information and links basic themes and events to the documents presented in the text. In short‚ a model of how an introduction should be done. Colin Calloway’s intentions were to focus on the humanistic study of the Plain Indians views on how the West was lost. It provides us with the actual perspectives of Indian people
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The Transcontinental Railroad and Westward Expansion Thesis: The transcontinental railroad greatly increased Westward expansion in the United States of America during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The history of the United States has been influenced by England in many ways. In the second half of the 1800 ’s‚ the railroad‚ which was invented in England‚ had a major effect on Western expansion in the United States. "Railroads were born in England‚ a country with dense populations
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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s The decade that became known as the "Dirty Thirties" was literally quite what its name implied-dirty! During the period of 1930-1940‚ located in the heart of the Great Plains of the United States‚ was a series of massive dust storms and long-term drought. Another well-earned nickname this region was known for was the Dust Bowl. The Great Depression occurred at this time as well and added to the suffering placed upon the many poor farmers of the Southwest region. What
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COMANCHE INDIANS The Comanches‚ exceptional horsemen who dominated the Southern Plains‚ played a prominent role in Texas frontier history throughout much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anthropological evidence indicates that they were originally a mountain tribe‚ a branch of the Northern Shoshones‚ who roamed the Great Basin region of the western United States as crudely equipped hunters and gatherers. Both cultural and linguistic similarities confirm the Comanches’ Shoshone origins
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retrieved its name after Black Sunday on April 14‚ 1935. Prior to 1935 many dust storms had occurred. In 1932 a calculation of fourteen dust storms were recorded in the Plains and by 1938 there were a total of 38 storms recorded. The Dust Bowl is described as one of the most catastrophic events of the early 1900s. The Great Plains was a region of the United States that witnessed 100 million acres of topsoil being stripped from over used farmland. It was characterized by many factors such as poor farming
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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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of land from them in Oklahoma (Boyer 442). Homesteaders were faced with more problems in the Great Plains‚ since they needed to make use of the land to pay for their supplies and transportation‚ but it was not ideal for farming; it had scarce amounts of trees and a limited supply of water (Boyer 444).To help‚ the U.S.D.A. assisted new farmers by figuring out the best types of wheat for the Great Plains and teaching farmers innovative techniques of dry farming (Boyer 445). The combination of desperation
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