1. Moving to the
Plains

2. Frontier Settlements: 1870-1890

3. Population of the United States After the Civil War

4. The Great Plains States Entering the Union from 1867-1896
37-Nebraska (1867)
38-Colorado (1876)
39 and 40-North and South Dakota (1889)
41-Montana (1889)
42-Washington (1889)
43-Idaho (1890)
44-Wyoming (1890)
45-Utah (1896)

5. Blue skies and open prairies.

6. The location of the Great Plains.

7. Buffalo roamed the Plains.

8. What is the Message of this Picture?

9. The Realty--A Pioneer’s Sod House, SD

10. The Homestead Act of 1862
The Homestead Act gave public lands (lands owned by the national government) to American citizens.

11. Married couples were entitled to two shares, or 320 acres.
Facts:
Any person who was the head of a family or was at least 21 years old could become the owner of a homestead.
- homestead = 160 acres
- an acre = 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet
Married couples were entitled to two shares, or 320 acres.

12. Requirements:
The settler must live on the land and work it for five years.

15. Hardships Lived in soddies Livable homestead cost
Homes made of sod: grass, root and dirt.
Livable homestead cost
Difficulty farming for five years to claim land
Bugs:
grasshoppers, locusts
ate wheat, rye barley fields
mosquitoes
Carried disease
Drought
Reduced land productivity

18. African Americans Moved West. Why?

19. Exodusters Moving West.
I hope there’s no KKK.
I hope there’s no Jim Crow Laws in the West.
Maybe we can vote in the West.

20. Blacks Moving West

21. Steel Plow [“Sod Buster”] “Prairie Fan” Water Pump
New Agricultural Technology
Steel Plow [“Sod Buster”]
“Prairie Fan” Water Pump
McCormick Reaper

22. Teach your neighbor about the hardships the Homesteaders had?

23. Land Use: 1880

24. Gold and silver mines were discovered throughout the West.
Thousands of miners from the U.S., Europe, Mexico, and China flocked to the West.
Chinese miners
White and Chinese miners hoping to strike it rich.

25. Boom Towns grew overnight
Boom Towns grew overnight. Boom Towns mean that many people came to the town and businesses began growing.

26. Boomtowns - towns that grew up near major mining sites
· Some boom towns developed into cities, such as Denver, CO, and Reno, NV.

27. Boomtown - The General Store, Corinne, Boxelder Co., Utah

28. · Many of these new towns became abandoned ghost towns when the ore disappeared.
Silver City, Idaho

29. Boomtown Busttown Gold is All Found People Move Away to Find Jobs
Businesses
Close
Discovered
Gold
People Move In
Businesses Open
Boomtown
Busttown