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Pioneers on the Plains
Ms. Richardson’s 5th grade class
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Lesson Essential Question
•Why did settlers begin
living on the Great
Plains in the mid-
1800’s?
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Places to Know
• Great Plains
• Nicodemus, Kansas
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People to Know
• Willa Cather
• Benjamin Singleton
• George Shima
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Vocabulary
• Pioneer
• Homestead Act
• Homesteader
• Sodbuster
• Exoduster
• Technology
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The Great Plains
• The Great Plains was considered by many in the mid-1800’s to be nothing more than the “Great American Desert.”
• The U.S. government wanted to encourage people to live on the Great Plains.
• The President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act.
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The Great Plains
• The Homestead Act gave 160 acres of
land, for just $10, to men over the age
of 21 or women if they were the head of
the household. They had to farm and
live on the land for 5 years. After the
five years the land became theirs.
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The Great Plains
• These pioneers or new settlers moved
to the Great Plains with the hope of
building a new and better life for
themselves.
• The settlers that claimed the new land
given in the Homestead Act were called
homesteaders.
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Settling on the Plains
• Before the pioneers could begin farming
they had to rip up the thick grass on
their land.
• This was not easy as the grass on the
Great Plains had tangled roots and
were several inches thick.
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Settling on the Plains
• Because the settlers on the Great
Plains had to bust through this “sod”
these farmers were also know as
sodbusters.
• After ripping up the sod from the land,
most sodbusters used the sod to make
their houses.
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Settling on the Plains
• Sod houses were built from blocks of
sod that stayed cool in the summer and
warm in the winter.
• Unfortunately for the homesteaders the
sod walls were home to bugs, mice, and
snakes!
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Settling on the Plains
• Once the homesteaders were able to
plant crops, they found the land to be
very fertile.
• Willa Cather, who grew-up on the
plains, described life on the Great in her
famous novel “O Pioneers.”
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America Fever
• The stories of the Great Plains spread
quickly to Europe.
• Thousands of people moved to the U.S.
to live on the Great Plains.
• The Great Plains became, and still is
today, the most productive wheat
growing region in the world!
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America Fever
• The Homestead Act also provided
opportunities for African Americans as
they still faced unfair treatment after the
end of slavery.
• Benjamin Singleton began urging
African Americans to leave the south
and move to the Great Plains.
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America Fever
• The African Americans living on the
Great Plains began calling themselves
Exodusters. Exo - from the book in the
Bible, Exodus; and dusters - from all of
the dust on the Great Plains.
• Soon all African American communities
began forming over the Great Plains like
Nicodemus, Kansas.
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Life on the Plains
• Living on the Great Plains required
some new technology to make life a
little bit easier. Technology is the use of
new ideas to make tools that improve
people’s lives.
• Even with the new technology life was
very difficult on the Great Plains.
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Life on the Plains
• Weather was harsh on the plains.
Winters brought bitter cold and deadly
blizzards. The spring often brought
tornados, hailstorms, and flooding. The
summers meant blazing heat and little
rain.
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Life on the Plains
• If the weather was not bad enough, the
settlers had to watch for fires and the
dreaded grasshopper.
• Grasshoppers were so many at times
that they blacked out the sun and were
up to 6 inches thick on the ground,
destroying everything in their path.
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Technology on the Plains
• Steel Plows were
first invented by a
man named John
Deere. These plows
were made just for
the Great Plains.
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Technology on the Plains
• Windmills helped people on the Great
Plains gather water as most of the water
was deep underground. With the steady
wind on the Plains, windmills were ideal
tools.
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Technology on the Plains
• Barbed wire helped farmers keep
animals away from their crops. A man
named Joseph Glidden invented barbed
wire in 1874. Barbed wire fences were
cheap and easy to build.
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Technology on the Plains
• Dry Farming was a way that farmers
grow crops with little rain. This method
uses moisture stored in the soil, rather
than rainfall. Farmers used dry farming
to grow wheat and other crops.
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Growth in the West
• People continued to move further and
further west because of the new
railroads.
• Thousands of people settled in
Washington, Oregon, and California.
• The west also attracted people from
other countries.
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Growth in the West
• Many Japanese built successful farms
in the west.
• One of the more famous farmers was
George Shima.
• He was born in Japan. When he arrived
in the U.S. he was so poor he had no
money for food.
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Growth in the West
• Shima soon made enough money to
rent 10 acres of land.
• He experimented with growing potatoes.
• He became know as the “Potato King.”
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Review
• What did the government hope the
Homestead Act would accomplish?
• Who were the exodusters? What
caused them to move to the Great
Plains?
• Describe two inventions that helped the
pioneese on the Great Plains.