1. Settling the Great Plains
Chapter 13 Sec 2

2. Westward Movement helped by Railroads
Great American Desert (Great Plains)
Plow
Windmill
Barbed wire

3. Homestead Act – 1862 “Sooners” – Oklahoma – 1889 Frontier closed 1890
160 acres – worked it for 5 years
“Sooners” – Oklahoma – 1889
Frontier closed 1890
Exodusters
African Americans
Kansas

4. Challenges of the Plains
Housing (No trees)
Dugouts
Soddies

5. Division of Labor Education
Women get the right to vote in Wyoming – 1869
Education
Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 & 1890
Agricultural colleges

6. Bonanza Farms
Huge Farms
Single crops