Sec' 2 Western Farmers

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Sec. 2 Western Farmers

• Economic Development of the West
• Moving West
• Western Environments Farming
• Farm Life on the Plains

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I. Economic Development of the West

• Homstead Act permitted any citizen or intended
  citizen to select any surveyed land up to 160
  acres
• Pacific Railroad Act gave lands to railroad
  companies to develop a railroad line linking the
  east and west coasts
• Morrill Act granted more than 17 mil. Acres of
  federal land to the states
• The homesteaders use the railroads to ship their
  crops
• Railroad companies advertised in the east to
  encourage settlement along the rail routes.

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II. Moving West

• Two reasons why migrants moved west economic
  racial tolerance
• Three main groups that moved west
• White Americans form the East
• African Americans from the South escape violence
  persecution
• Immigrants
• Kansas Fever Exodus of 1879
• America Fever

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III. Western Environments Farming

• Use irrigation systems
• Built Sod houses
• USDA created in 1862
• Self binding harvesters
• Bonanza Farming large farms with many farmers
  acted like a factory

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IV. Farm Life on the Plains

• Sod Houses
• Harsh weather
• Insects
• Work
• Storytellers in the Plains