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 History Lab 4
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Objectives:
1. SS.912.A.3.4
Determine how the development of steel, oil, transportation, communication, and
business practices affected the United States economy.
2. SS.912.A.3.1
Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers' responses to
these challenges in the mid to late 1800s.
Agenda:
1. Bell
Ringer (10 min)
2. Review
EOC Review Guide pages 11-12 (10 min)
3. 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. (rest of class)
4. 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?
Home Learning: EOC
Review Guide pages 13-14
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