Calamity Jane Homestead Act passed in 1862 to

Calamity Jane!!!

Homestead Act -passed in 1862 -to encourage settlement of the Plains area -gave 160 acres of land to settlers if they improved the land lived on it. -land speculators -Oklahoma giveaway, 1889 - 1000 s of people lined up on the boarder eager to claim land - in less than a day 2 million acres are claimed - Some people claimed too soon= “Sooner state” -people continued to come for the cheap lands and opportunity

Homestead Act -passed in 1862 -to encourage settlement of the Plains area -gave 160 acres of land to settlers if they improved the land lived on it. -land speculators -Oklahoma giveaway, 1889 -people continued to come for the cheap lands and opportunity

Homestead Act -passed in 1862 -to encourage settlement of the Plains area -gave 160 acres of land to settlers if they improved the land lived on it. -land speculators -Oklahoma giveaway, 1889 -people continued to come for the cheap lands and opportunity

New Technology -deeper wells -steel plows -better farm equipment reaper, harvesters -Morrill Land Grants: Fed. Gov’t Grants to build Colleges to teach agriculture-railroad expansion transcontinental railroad, 1869

Life on the Farm -sod houses -weather extremes -drought -isolation

Life on the Farm -sod houses -weather extremes -drought -isolation

Life on the Farm -sod houses -weather extremes -drought -isolation

Decline of Farming -rise of industry -urbanization -end of the frontier -Frederick Jackson Turner “Frontier Thesis” - End of the Frontier, Now what? – Essay -great debts -Railroad charges