Unit 1 Chapter 2 Vocabulary Pages 49-53 PDF

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Joan Elepan P.7 09/24/2021 Read pages 49 - 53. Answer the following questions. What strategies did farmers use in order to address economic challenges of the late 1800s? Answer: Farmers worked to solve their economic and political problems in the late 1800s by banding together for better bargaining power. They also entered politics to fight for progressive reforms. Solution to Remoteness of markets? Answer: The railroads allowed the farmers to ship their produce eastwards. Solution to Lack of wood, clay, or rock for homes? Answer: The farmers built “sod houses” made from thick clumps of grass and soil cut into bricks. Solution to lack of wood for fencing? Answer: The farmers used barbed wire, first invented in 1874. Wire was twisted together at intervals to create sharp barbs that kept cattle and other animals from jumping over or crawling through the fence. Solution to lack of rainfall? Answer: Farmers on the Great Plains used drilling equipment to dig wells hundreds of feet deep in order to tap into groundwater. Windmills powered pumps that brought this water to the surface. Solution to tough, and dry soil? Answer: Farmers used steel or chilled-iron plows and plowed more deeply to preserve surface moisture in the soil. These new techniques came to be known as “dry farming. Solution to lack of fuel? Answer: The farmers burned “buffalo chips” (dried buffalo manure) for fuel. Solution to lack of manpower? Answer: They used machinery, such as horse-drawn harvesters and threshers, to farm more acres with fewer workers. In fact, some machinery was actually easier to use on the treeless plains than elsewhere. Vocabulary (just define & add page #) Dawes Act, 1887: Shock at the mistreatment of Indians identified by Helen Hunt Jackson and other reformers led to this attempt to “Americanize” Indians. An Indian could apply to take his own private land from the tribe’s reservation land. The Dawes Act actually led to a sell-off of Indian lands. Pg. 55....