Americans in the West? - Initially‚ the white Americans allocated the Great Plains terrain to the Native Americans‚ as they deemed it useless. The Indians relied very heavily on nature‚ especially the buffalo‚ which they used all parts of for various reason‚ like food‚ clothing‚ and weaponry. When Americans and immigrants needed to move west near California and Oregon‚ they realized that the Great Plains can be explored with railroads as a means of transportation. The white Americans had
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Children and animals died from dust pneumonia due to the dust bowl. In the southern plains‚ (Nebraska‚ Denver‚ Kansas‚ New Mexico‚ and Oklahoma). Farmers were hit by giant storms of dust. They had to cover every open space with a wet cloth so dust didn’t get in‚ not move in bed‚ and eat jack rabbit stew because that’s was what was cheap enough to eat.(background document‚ Dust bowl mini-q)Many of the farmers stayed‚ but some left. The farmers made profit during the war‚ but what it high must come
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I have used Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan many times in a guided reading group. It is the story if Sarah‚ who moves from Maine to the prairie when she answers the advertisement for a wife. She decides to try this out for a month and care for Anna and Caleb whose mother has dies. Sarah tells the family that they will recognize her when she arrives because she is "plain and tall." She brings with her a cat and gifts from the ocean. The story revolves around Caleb and Anna and their
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failing to sell off crop surpluses and pay banks and other institutions created more problems. Through the mid 1930s farmers faced additional problems and looked for the governments help. Dust storms and droughts hit hard through the Great Plains and the high plains‚ regions of Texas‚ Oklahoma‚
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practices‚ and high winds (“Dust” 466). These dust storms battered the Great Plains‚ which run from South Dakota to Texas‚ creating “dust pneumonia” for the people who lived there (“Dust” 466‚ 467). Many people living in the Great Plain during this time decided to migrate to California‚ desperate to get a job‚ even if it was picking crops for low wages (“The Dust” 1). The millions of Americans living in the Great Plains during the time of the Dust Bowl had to endure extreme hardships‚ but they did
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gave people dust pneumonia‚ and sometimes killed people. People who could get out of the south west packet up and moved. Some more less unfortunate families couldn’t move and had to stay. In 1900-1930 families started buying land and moving to the plains. They would farm cash crops on the land but it was very hard work. The country was already in a depression and also the stock market crash. Their plants failed 5 years in a row. With no income they couldn’t pay mortgages. After no rain the dirt was
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The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan Presently‚ as many people enjoy the beauty of the prairie either in the north or in south‚ they fail or do not understand that a big proportion of those plains are consequently modern era ecological disaster. It is common to hear people talk about “the Dust Bowl or “the Dirty ‘30s”. This is where Timothy Egan in his non-fiction book The Worst Hard Time basis his book‚ i.e.‚ on the historical 1930 Dust Bowl. In his book‚ Egan critically examines the origin and
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of sand flung against the face (The Dust Bowl of the 1930s). By “impact” Avis was referring to “Black Sunday” in the “Dust Bowl.” The Dust Bowl was made up of parts of Colorado‚ Oklahoma‚ Kansas‚ and Texas. The Dust Bowl was an area of the Great Plains that was devastated by depression and drought. The area was 150‚000 square miles‚ had little grass and soil‚ and‚ unfortunately‚ had abundant winds. “Black blizzards” were what people that lived in the Dust Bowl called dust storms (History.com). The
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through various means‚ creating a North American empire for raw material to fuel factories. Western economies need the Fed Govt BEYOND THE FRONTIER Prior to the Civil War‚ the march of White settlement paused at the margin of the semiarid Great Plains‚ a region seared by hot winds and too little rain for extensive agriculture in summers and buffeted by blizzards and hailstorms in the winter‚ which presented a temporary obstacle‚ like the Rockies‚ to further migration. It was thought West of MS
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government expanded the “Homestead Act”‚ and created the “Kinkaid Act”. Under The Kinkaid act‚ the government granted 640 Acres to homesteaders in Western Nebraska. The “Enlarged Homestead Act” Granted 320 Acres to Homesteaders in the rest of the Plains area. The rapid
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