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In the mid-to-late 19th century windmills on the Great Plains would have been MOST likely to have been used for?
pumping water
What new methods and technologies revolutionized agriculture and made it practical to cultivate the plains?
New methods and technologies that revolutionized agriculture in the plains include the invention of the steel plow by John Deere, which allowed farmers to efficiently break through tough prairie soil. The introduction of the reaper by Cyrus McCormick significantly improved harvest efficiency. Additionally, advancements in irrigation techniques and the use of crop rotation helped optimize land use and sustain soil fertility. Together, these innovations made it feasible to cultivate previously challenging landscapes.
Is the great plains manmade?
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Which is most responsible for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains?
The Homestead Act of 1862is most responsible for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains.
What inventions helped to farming on the great plains?
windmills... plows... you think of some! :)
Farmers of late nineteenth century of the Great plains usually lived on?
Isolated farmhouses.
Intertribal warfare among Plains Indians increased in the late nineteenth century because of?
growing competition for the rapidly dwindling hunting grounds
Compare and contrast the federal and state governments' treatment of the Plains Indians and Mexican Americans in the late nineteenth century?
Both groups were driven off their lands by white people.
Why white settlement had not spread across the great plains before the civil war?
No one found gold or silver deposits out West until the last decade of the nineteenth century.
Why did the great plains buffalo almost become extinct?
The buffalo were nearly exterminated through wholesale butchery by whites
What was the environment and climate like in the plains?
It is the plains
How did the idiom 'to rub out' come to mean 'to kill'?
This term originated among American trappers during the early nineteenth century. They based it on the sign language of the American Plains Indians, who used a rubbing motion to mean killing.
Which statement accurately describes the development of the great plains in the late nineteenth century?
Technological innovations made farming there possible.
Nineteenth-century mapmakers referred to the great plains as?
The "Great American Desert." This term was used to describe the region due to its perceived lack of water sources and vegetation, even though it was home to diverse Indigenous cultures and an abundance of grasslands.
What invention bought end to the open rang on the great plains?
barbed wire
Which group of people on the Great Plains benefited most from the invention of barbed wire?
Farmmers
What was the western frontier of the last half of the nineteenth century?
The western frontier of the last half of the nineteenth century in the United States was characterized by the expansion of settlement and development beyond the Mississippi River into areas like the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, and Pacific Coast. This period saw events like the California Gold Rush, construction of the transcontinental railroad, conflicts with Native American tribes, and the closing of the frontier with the census of 1890.
