Question

Why did Americans first travel across the Great Plains?

Answer 1

To start new lives. They expected to find lands that would be farmed easily.

Answer 2

To start new lives. They expected to find lands that would be farmed easily.... mensa

Answer 3

To start new lives. They expected to find lands that would be farmed easily. and Manifest Destiny

Answer 4

hahahahahah all from wiki answer lolol

Answer 5

Damn

Answer 6

LOL I gave the answer first

Answer 7

I get the medal

Answer 8

lol thats funny

Answer 9

well i added manifest destiny lol

Answer 10

I KNOW I FOUND THAT ANSWER TOO BUT THATS NOT ONE OF MY ANSWER CHIOCES :(

Answer 11

After 1870, the new railroads across the Plains brought hunters who killed off almost all the bison for their hides. The railroads offered attractive packages of land and transportation to European farmers, who rushed to settle the land. They (and Americans as well) also took advantage of the homestead laws to obtain free farms.

Much of the Great Plains became open range, or rangeland where cattle roamed free, hosting ranching operations where anyone was theoretically free to run cattle. In the spring and fall, ranchers held roundups where their cowboys branded new calves, treated animals and sorted the cattle for sale. Such ranching began in Texas and gradually moved northward. In 1866-95, cowboys herded 10 million cattle north to rail heads such as Dodge City, Kansas and Ogallala, Nebraska; from there, cattle were shipped eastward.
See also: Cattle drives in the United States

Many foreign investors, especially British, financed the great ranches of the era. Overstocking of the range and the terrible winter of 1886 resulted in a disaster, with many cattle starved and frozen to death. Theodore Roosevelt, a rancher in the Dakotas, lost his entire investment; he returned east to reenter politics. From then on, ranchers generally raised feed to ensure they could keep their cattle alive over winter.

To allow for agricultural development of the Great Plains and house a growing population, the US passed the Homestead Act of 1862: it allowed a settler to claim up to 160 acres (65 ha) of land, provided that he lived on it for a period of five years and cultivated it. The provisions were expanded under the Kinkaid Act of 1904 to include a homestead of an entire section. Hundreds of thousands of people claimed such homesteads, sometimes building sod houses out of the very turf of their land. Many of them were not skilled dryland farmers and failures were frequent. Much of the Plains were settled during relatively wet years. Government experts did not understand how farmers should cultivate the prairies and gave advice counter to what would have workedGermans from Russia who had previously farmed, under similar circumstances, in what is now the Ukraine were marginally more successful than other homesteaders. The Dominion Lands Act of 1871 served a similar function for establishing homesteads on the prairies in Canada.

Answer 12

Show off -__-

Answer 13

what are your answer choces

Answer 14

lol :)

Answer 15

NEED FOR MEDALS 6

Answer 16

really she aint going to read all that trust me

Answer 17

A They were passing through on their way to the West Coast.
B They wanted to seek silver and gold there.
C They wanted to befriend the Plains Indians.
D They were surveying land like Lewis and Clark did.

Answer 18

A

Answer 19

NO b

Answer 20

no c

Answer 21

WHAT IS IT FOREAL :(

Answer 22

just kidding b

Answer 23

B REMEMBER MANIFEST DESTINY

Answer 24

AND GOLD RUSH

Answer 25

WHYD YOU MEDALED HIM I SAID IT FIRST LOL

Answer 26

How did the Lewis and Clark Expedition affect the frontier in the early 1800s?
A The frontier’s expansion increased rapidly after Lewis and Clark cleared the territory of any dangers.
B Americans extended the frontier when they learned about the territory from the expedition reports.
C The frontier’s expansion slowed after Lewis and Clark returned from their expedition disappointed by the lonely landscape.
D Americans left the frontier untouched for another decade after they learned how dangerous the expedition was.

Answer 27

b

Answer 28

AND MUZZACK THANK YOU !!!

Answer 29

B

Answer 30

Why did President Jefferson hire Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
A to open the port of New Orleans
B to explore the Louisiana Territory
C to acquire Oregon Country
D to purchase Florida from Spain

Answer 31

AND THANK YOU GUYS APPRECIATE IT