Aim:
Why was cattle ranching an important business for the Great Plains?
Aim:
What new methods and technologies revolutionized agriculture and made it
practical to cultivate the Plains?
Bell
Ringer: Review the concept map “Settlement of the West” and highlight the terms
that we have not covered in class.
Objectives:
1. Students will determine
how the development of steel, oil, transportation, communication, and business
practices affected the United States economy.
2. Students will analyze the
economic challenges to American farmers and farmers' responses to these
challenges in the mid to late 1800s.
Agenda:
1.
Bell Ringer (5 min)
2.
Using the textbook (chapter 2, lessons 1 and 2) to search for information on:
"long drive" on "open range", clash between ranchers and
farmers / dry farming, sod houses, barbed wire, wells, windmills, steel plows.
Highlight or underline each vocabulary word.
3.
Questions to consider when writing this assignment: 1. Describe the reasons for
the growth of the cattle industry on the Great Plains. 2. How did new technologies
help improve settlers' ability to cultivate larger, more profitable farms?
4.
Submit History Labs 'Civil War' and 'Reconstruction'
NO
HOMEWORK!
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