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Settling the Great Plains: Railroads, Homesteaders, and Innovations

Explore the significant role of railroads in opening the West, the impact of the Homestead Act, farming innovations, and challenges faced by settlers. Learn about Exodusters, government policies, and the transformation of farming in the West.

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Settling the Great Plains: Railroads, Homesteaders, and Innovations

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  1. Settling on the Great Plains

  2. What are we studying today?

  3. Why did the government give grants to the Railroads?

  4. What were the two major railroads?

  5. Who worked on the railroads?

  6. How did the railroads help open the West?

  7. Why was the homestead act passed?

  8. What is an Exoduster?

  9. What was a major problem for the homesteaders?

  10. Why is Oklahoma called the “Sooner” state?

  11. In what ways did government policies encouragesettlement of the West?

  12. Why was Yellowstone National Park created?

  13. Explain Frederick Jackson Turner’s reasons for lamenting the end of the frontier.

  14. Contrast the difference between Dugouts and Soddies.

  15. Why did the settlers have to become self-sufficient?

  16. Why were the plow and reaping machine so important? • 1837 - John Deere had invented a steel plow that could slice through heavy soil. • 1847, Cyrus McCormick began to mass-produce a reaping machine.

  17. How do the new inventions affect the growth of the United States?

  18. Why is the Morrill Act so important?

  19. Why would farmers develop “cyclical” debt?

  20. How did new inventions changefarming in theWest?

  21. Explain how you think settlement of the plains would have been different without the farming inventions.

  22. How did the railroads take advantage of farmers?

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