How did the Homesteaders and Ranchers settle the plains? Use pages 82 – 93 to answer the questions

1. How did the Homesteaders and Ranchers settle the plains? • Use pages 82 – 93 to answer the questions • Study source 1 and the information given then answer these points: • What clothes are they wearing? • What sort of house do they live in? • What tools do they use? • What work might they do? • They are all members of the same family. Can you work out what their relationships might be? • Look at their faces. What sort of life do you think the Bentleys live? • ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Read pages 84 and 85. Use sources 2-6. For each one, explain what might have motivated these people to move to the Great Plains. Consider both the ‘push’ and the ‘pull’ factors in source 1. _______________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. 3. What do you think were the most important motives of these homesteaders for settling on the Great Plains? You should consider all their motives before reaching your conclusion. • ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Imagine you are a woman or man living on a homestead in Kansas in 1878. You are writing a letter home to your family in England. You know that some of your younger relatives are thinking about emigrating to Kansas to become homesteaders. What advice and information will you give them? You should use all the material on the homesteaders (pages 86-93) to help you. You might want to comment on: • The opportunities • The problems of life and farming. • How tough it is for men and women. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Write again in 1890. What do you have to add? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________