Railroads connected the four dollar cow
with the forty-dollar market.
Texas longhorns lean, hardy, fleet of foot, and ill-tempered- (does this description
remind you of anyone in the room?)
Texas Longhorn Cattle
Chisholm Trail
Indian trader Jesse Chisholm first marked this
famous cattle trail for his wagons.
By 1870 thousands of Texas longhorn cattle were being driven over the Chisholm Trail to the Union Pacific (later the Kansas Pacific) Railroad shipping center at Abilene.
By 1871 as many as 5,000 cowboys were often paid off during a single day. Abilene became known as a
rough town in the West.
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Homestead Act most important factor
to stimulate Western settlement
1. Settlers could acquire up to 160 acres of land (quarter section) by simply living on it for five years,
2. improve the land
3. paying anominal title fee of $10.00 .
 Sod House |
 Cooking stove inside Sod house |
Pioneers faced a rough life lived in
dugouts or sod houses
Fuel, water , and food were not easily
available on the Great Plains
Watch 6.5 min video on Sod Homes:
Inventions for prairie farmers
Joseph Glidden invented
John Deere steel plow
Other inventions:
windmill, irrigation,
drought-resistant
wheat
By 1899,
1. the Great Plains had become the nation's
breadbasket
2. John S. Pillsbury built the largest flour mill in the world in Minneapolis
3. New states were added to the union
1867 Nebraska ,
1876 Colorado
1889-90 North Dakota, South Dakota,
Montana, Washington, Idaho, and
Wyoming
4. Mormon Church officially banned polygamy
in 1890 so Utah became the 45th state in 1896.
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5. Boomers or "89ers" settled Indian Territory (Oklahoma) Ok became 46th state in 1907. |
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Watch Far and Away 18min video:
6. 1912 New Mexico and Arizona join the Union
Turn to page 342 read the final paragraph
in column one and list some of the hardships
settlers faced on the prairie.
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Lesson Objectives
Students will learn
OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
1. list
2. explain the difference between
3. describe the
4. chart on a map the
5. define the terms
6. Explain the significance of
Knowledge: Recall of data.
Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.
Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace.
Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.
Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.
Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.
| Remember : Recognizing, Recalling |
| Understand : Interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, explaining |
| Apply : Executing, implementing |
| Analyze : Differentiating, organizing, attributing |
| Evaluate : checking, critiquing |
| Create: generating, planning, producing |