Farming on the Plains
Subjects / History / American West, 1840-1895
When the first intrepid men went out to make a go of farming the Great Plains, they went with what they knew - they took their old methods of farming, which required plenty of water and involved delicate crops like summer wheat, and tried to make them work on the Plains. They expected to live in wooden houses and be able to wash regularly. They looked forward to having the space they craved, far from the overcrowded eastern states. Many undoubtedly imagined a world in which they would become fabulously rich thanks to all the crops they would successfully grow. Unfortunately, as we're going to discover, they were in for a bit of a shock. In the end it was only those who were willing to adapt, borrowing ideas from the Plains Indians and the Mormons, who would be successful.
| Author: | Sally Thorne | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Peter McGowan | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-073-8 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-573-3 |
Chapters
- Homestead Life on the Plains
- Government Incentives for Homesteaders
- Problems of Farming the Plains
- Solutions to Farming the Plains
- The Role of Women on the Plains
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- Reasons for going West
- The journeys, life and work of the homesteaders
- Federal and state government actions; leglislation, grants of land and money
- The reasons for, and results of, The Homestead Act, 1862 and Timber and Culture Act 1873
- Railway companies' contribution to the settlement of the West
- Farming problems and solutions
- Women on the Great Plain: the hardships they faced; their stabalising and civilising effect on society
- Survival on the Plains: life and work of the homesteaders
- The role of women
- Farming: problems and solutions
- The reasons for the continued settlement of the West in the late 1860s and 1870s including the Homestead Acts, the belief in 'Manifest Destiny' and the hopes and aspirations of the settlers
- The problems faced by the homesteaders on their homesteads and their attempts to overcome them
- The role of women on the homesteads. Government, law and order; problems and attempted solutions
- Government legislation: Homestead Act, Timber and Culture Act, Desert Land Act, Timber and Stone Act
- the Homesteaders: problems of living on and farming the Plains
- the role of women
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