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The Wild West

The Wild West. PART II: Farming in the West. Objectives: Explain the new agricultural methods used by farmers on the Great Plains. Discuss the challenges faced by farmers on the Great Plains and the efforts to meet those challenges. While ranchers and cowhands built cattle kingdoms….

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The Wild West

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  1. The Wild West PART II: Farming in the West Objectives: Explain the new agricultural methods used by farmers on the Great Plains. Discuss the challenges faced by farmers on the Great Plains and the efforts to meet those challenges.

  2. While ranchers and cowhands built cattle kingdoms… Hundreds of thousands of farmers flooded onto the Great Plains. Explain how the following helped them: • HOMESTEAD ACT • RAILROADS

  3. The Oddness of Sod…ness New technology Windmills

  4. Let’s a Go!

  5. By 1890, the frontier is

  6. Women of the West

  7. Election of 1896 & 1900

  8. Farmers Organize • Great supply=lower price for grain. Farmers pushed for inflation. • Small farmers (WEST) and sharecroppers (EAST) fell into debt. • Populism declines after 1900.

  9. What’s Next • Farmers continue to demand reforms and the struggle to survive in the West continues. • Back east, the rise of BIG business and industry is followed by its own labor reforms.

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