Settling on the Great Plains

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• Settling on the Great Plains

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Railroads open the West

• Transcontinental Railroad

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• Union Pacific
• Central Pacific
• Promontory Point, Utah
• May 10, 1869
• Helped attract many settlers to the west.

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• Government supported western settlement
• Homestead Act main purpose was to encourage the
  development of farming
• Homesteaders name for people who farmed land
  given by the Federal government

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Settlers on the Plains

• Homes - SODDY

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• Made by stacking blocks of prairie turf

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Technical and Educational Support

• John Deere 1837 invented a steel plow

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• Cyrus McCormick 1847 - reaper

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• Both the steel plow and the reaper were pulled by
  either horses or mules.
• Both helped make more grain available

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Federal Government financed Agricultural Education

• Morrill Land Grant Acts 1862 and 1890
• Gave federal land to the state to help finance
  agricultural colleges
• 1862 states not in rebellion
• 1890 former Confederate States

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• Hatch Act 1887
• Established experiment stations to communicate
  new developments in agriculture to farmers in
  every state

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Milan, Tennessee
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Long Drive

• Overland transport of cattle
• Usually lasted 3 months
• Began on a ranch
• Ended at a shipyard
• Took place soon after a round-up
• Greatest danger was a stampede
• Chisholm Trail most famous
• Open range and west ended with barbed wire

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Chisholm Trail