Mt MorrisBeef Cattle Seminar June 17, 2009 Classification and Identification of Cattle Breeds.
Cattle Ranching in the 1800s By Jonathan Brandt. The History A ranch is a large area of land that is used to farm animals. Ranchers let the animals graze,
America: The Story of Us Heartland Video Guide. 1. What was the biggest obstacle in the way of building the transcontinental railroad? The Sierra Nevada.
The Great West. Why Go West? Pull Factors: things (usually good) attracting settlers Get rich fast Gold silver Private property Gov’t was practically.
1860 - 1920 Ch. 5 “An Industrial Nation”. DRQ 5.1 Briefly describe what life was like for ONE of the following individuals during the late 1800’s. An.
Getting to California Placer mining – mining with simple equipment Quartz mining – large scale corporation mining operations Vigilantly – citizens that.
UNIT 1: AGRARIANISM TO INDUSTRIALISM PART 1 NOTES Chapters 13.
Focus Questions What led to the cattle boom? What was life like for cowboys? What caused the decline of the Cattle Kingdom?
The Last American Frontier. Frontier Frontier – the line separating areas of settlement from ‘unsettled’ wilderness territory See map on page 90 – ‘The.
Revision Summary for Sections 5 - 7. Answer the questions from the text to start with. When you have done that once go through them without any prompts.
What is Reconstruction? (403). What does amnesty mean? (403) What are the black codes and give an example of one. (405)
Digging for Gold Growth of the Mining Industry Placer mining –Prospectors used simple equipment like picks, shovels, and pans to mine the shallow deposits.
