The Plains and the World The Great Plains has impacted the global history through Women’s rights, immigration and in times of war. The Great Plains impacted the lives of many across the world through immigration policies that encouraged the immigration in to the United States. The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged more people to try life on the plains by providing a way for land ownership and citizenship. Another way The Great Plains impacted world history is through the efforts of the residence during World War II in the scrap metal drive. The Great Plains was at the heart of the effort in the collection of scrap metal. This effort allowed the steel factories to continue to produce munitions and vehicles for the war, which directly affected …show more content…
They were allowed land ownership and even the chance to vote in the Great Plains, which was very rare across the world. This unique moment in North Dakota settlement, through homesteading, allotment, and purchase, women had access to land and they seized the opportunity. Women were given many opportunities in the Great Plains that they had not seen in others parts of the world. In Comparison in most times and places, women had access to the most critical resource of farming – land – only through their relations with men. This land ownership led to the ability of women being able to vote in the Great Plains and would help in the women’s suffrage movement later on, not only in the United States but also around the world. Women’s work on the Plains was also essential to the progress of the plains becoming an agricultural center of the …show more content…
Migrants came to the Great Plains from all types of situations, such as the great potato famine of Ireland that caused many Irish to emigrate to the United States and primarily the Great Plains, where they could begin their lives again. The Homestead Act also provided a way for the immigrants to gain citizenship and own land in the Great Plains. The Homestead Act encouraged western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. This gave immigrants an easy route into citizenship; if they could maintain the land for five years they could become a citizen. This Act helped the Great Plains impact history by changing the immigration process and allowing immigrants to buy land before they were citizens of the country. Increasing numbers of Scandinavians came to United States with the intention of staying; they searched for land and a better life. People around the world came to the Great Plains in search for a better life and land something that they Great Plains had a lot of. This in many ways impacted the globe by easing the population of Europe, that was very crowded, and by giving people a chance to better their lives by giving them a fresh start. The impact of these events was important to global
This act was brought up to force Native Americans to assimilate white Americans. It was passed during the presidency of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. It was an act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations.
It opened the path for many court cases to reserve space for the Native Americans and created a tension between the Native Americans who did
The Homestead Act allowed the government to grant families 160 acres of unoccupied public land for only $1.25 per acre. The farmers plowed the prairie grasses and planted dry wheat land. When the nation went into the Great Depression the price of wheat fell significantly and farmers were plowing more land to make a profit off the wheat. Dry land farming led to the destruction of prairie grasses and destroyed large areas of grassland. Another leading cause is Overgrazing without a recovery period for the crops.
Instead, they lost their potential and ability to become self-sustaining ranchers and even farmers different from the initial intents of the policy. Notably, it also sparked a sense of resentment amongst the Indians on the government of the United States as the entire allotment scheme altered with their spiritual and cultural
Do you think farmers should have rights or say so to control crop and shipping prices? Farmers grow the food we eat today! Farmers also have to think about their families: the health and well being. So when farmers aren’t making enough to support their families then what? They will stop producing for the world and only produce for themselves!
The act only drew people to the Midwest for a temporary period. The population of the west looked like a map of cell coverage, with a lot of people in the East and California, but not much out West, where most of the homesteaders went. The document failed in its objective of populating the west, as shown in document 1 of section 3. The bulk of people who moved to cities held manufacturing jobs, as shown in document 2 of section 3, and almost none of them held agricultural jobs, which they most likely would had they been/stayed in a homestead. It was an utter failure.
1. How did Dawes Act effected the Native Americans? Dawes Act is the 1887 General Allotment Act. This act was to force the American Indians, who lived in communal way of life, to live Europeans style of individualism. It provided 160 acres of land for each family head and 80 acres to single persons over the age of eighteen (Reyhner and Eder,2006, p.81).
As the Indians now had land to live on, and didn’t have to worry about maintaining the land as much. The way the Indians were able to have land was because they lived on reservations. Reservations, were controversial, but they did give pretty stable land to the Indians. On the topic of reservations, Bennett Elmer said, “The 1851 Indian Appropriation Acts allocated funds to move Western tribes onto reservations.”
The most beautiful individuals are the ones who went through one of the toughest situations but, yet, came out victorious in a fight that could not be only physically won but mentally. During the Great Depression, there were various factors that played a tremendous role in the devastation on the American people. The Dust Bowl, in 1934, coerced darkness across the Great Plains in America as the rains ceased completely in the earlier 1930s (“Dust”). Soil starved from water sought out for revenge and strangled the life out of the settler’s crops, prosperity, and life as they knew it. To make an already terrible situation even worse, the Great Depression developed and began its toll on the citizens of America when the stock market crashed and farmers
It gave them new opportunities to many impoverished farmers from the East and Mid West. “The Homestead Act remained in effect for more than 100 years. The final claim, for 80 acres in southeastern Alaska, was approved in 1988”. Meaning that it’s the one that has the right to be called most Effective. Also saying that the Transcontinental railroad wasn 't a reason why there was Westward Expansions.
The Oregon Trail impacted America by expanding the west more and improved our country’s development. In fact, the Oregon trail was the only way to get to the Rocky’s at the time. Traveling there included people taking large wagons or sailing. Pioneers however died from
The government made programs to plant trees for a windbreak. Western lands with too little rainfall to support grain crops like corn or wheat should be left as pasture to maintain a grass cover that can retain moisture and keep topsoil in place. It caused the U.S to learn more about land management. They learned that not everything can be turned into fields. It also taught the U.S. about overgrazing, and that it can happen.
“All manner of depredations were inflicted on their persons, they were scalped, their brains knocked out; the men used their knives, ripped open women, clubbed little children, knocked them in the head with their guns, beat their brains out, mutilated their bodies in every sense of the word…worse mutilated than any I ever saw before, the women all cut to pieces….” (Smith). On the morning of November 29, 1864, U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington along with 675 Third Colorado Volunteer Regiment soldiers rode from Fort Lyon to Sand Creek where, according to some of the Indians, the most friendly of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes camped under the assumed protection of the fort. The conflict between the Third Colorado Cavalry, and the Cheyenne and
Life for the Native Americans was much harder during and after the western expansion. For example, the US took land from the Indians leading the formation of reservations, White men almost hunted the Buffalo , an important food source for the Indians, to extinction, and forced the Indians to get rid of their culture. Because of the western expansion, the area of land the Indians could occupy decreased significantly. The government would make treaties with the Indians allowing them to keep a certain area of land, but this would soon be broken ; When the Pacific Railroad Act was passed it stated that wherever a track was laid the company would own any land 200 ft surrounding the track including Indian land ; the Government would make sure that
The U.S had gained a lot of land, or frontiers in the West from Mexico. The land was undeveloped, therefore the U.S had to find a way to develop the land. The U.S would come up with the Homestead Act. The Homestead Acts states that any citizen or anyone planning to become a citizen is eligible to gain 160 acres of land, typically to form farms. The plan was intended to make the people stay in that land and create a