History Notes - Farming/Homestead Act

Homestead Act

21 + would apply for 160 acres of gov land. If they were able to handle the conditions after 5 years, they could keep the land

Jefferson’s plan of a farming country was was closely supported by

the homestead act

what are some of the challenges people faced during this act

• to poor to move

• did not have the skills

• conditions were too rough (tall thick grass, dry)

because of these conditions, 1/3 of people moved back to their original land

savannah

grasslands

Willa Lather

wrote my Astoria and O pioneers

substinence farming

growing and producing many things to survive

cash crops

producing more so they can sell and make money. the land that they were given was not great for cash crops and was too little

John Deere

steel plow

Mclormide Reaper

made reaping much faster and was done mechanically

The Coiled Age

Age of Extremes