REVISION SESSION 3 HOMESTEADERS PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS AND MINING TOWNS

WHAT DID WE DO LAST TIME?

Inference skills:What can you learn?

WHO WERE HOMESTEADERS AND WHAT DID THEY DO?

2 minutes. Write a definition on a post it. And come and stick it on the board:

FILL IN THE GAPS

Homesteaders started to go west in the …… This was because of the problem of……… in the East. Some of them had been slaves that had been….. And they were looking for a better…….

Many of them travelled by …… and had to take everything they …………. With ……..

They faced many problems when they arrived such as……..

One thing that had encouraged them to go had been the………. Act of …… this gave people ……. Acres of land for …… if they…… it.

WHAT PROBLEMS CAN YOU SEE WITH L IV ING L IKE THIS?

Why did they live like this?

PRO BLEMS FARMIN G THE LAND. MATCH THEM UP

problem solutionThe weather was hot in the summer and really cold in the winter

The Sod Buster

Barbed wire Joseph Glidden

No rain Sod Houses tough ground with hard grass roots which broke ploughs

Dry farming, new crop Turkey Red Wheat which could withstand hard frosts

No trees for building or fuel

No solution

Isolated miles from everyone else

Timber Culture Act

Natural hazards such as grasshoppers

Women worked hard to build communities

Animals trampling crops The wind pump Daniel Haliday

BINGO

Buffalo

Failing crops

Poor communications

No neighbours

Few workers

Sod houses

Harsh winters

FireGrasshoppersLack of waterNo woodIndiansFleasDirt

LETS PLAY A GAME

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/walk/walk_settlerswest.html

PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS!1. Lack of water

2. Land dried out3. Lack of

supplies 4. Some crops

would not grow

5. Buffalo 6. Lack of

workers 

A. Wind pump

B. Dry farming

C. Trains

D. Turkey red wheat

E. Machinery

F. Barbed wire fencing

How many homesteaderproblems

Can you spot?

Let’s watch a bit of telly! The observation round…….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTHBu4fdGTE

Lets do a test bitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/schools/gcsebitesize/history/quizengine?quiz=homesteadersproblemstest&templateStyle=history

Barbed wireDry farming

Sod busterTranscontinental Railway

Timber culture act

Wind pumppesticides

Why were mining town conditions so bad?

Your ideas

discovered

whenWho

Why?