Final Reading on 1800s Economic Change

While you read, answer the following questions:

1. How accurate do you think Frederick Jackson Turner's assertion that the days of Western settlement were ended by the 1890s?
2. What could be done now that the West had been 'settled'?
3. How did the rise of ranching evolve through the late 1800s?
4. What factors could have caused the reduction in man hours to complete the farming tasks listed in the chart on p. 582?
5. Why would the percentage of Western farmers being tenants rise during the 1880s-90s?
6. What problems did many Western plains farmers face during the 1880s?
7. In what ways was California agriculture different from the rest of the nation?
8. What steps were made to ensure the agricultural viability of California?
9. Answer questions on chart on p. 588
10. What challenges did the South face in the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction?
11. In what ways did the South maintain it's gentility and customs?
12. How did that maintaining of old customs affect their progress towards the creation of a 'New South'?
13. How did the post Civil War period affect African Americans?
14. What predictions can be garnered from the last few pages in terms of future legislation or social customs in the South?

PS... I hope to be back in school tomorrow, I hope that today's activity helped quell alot of your anxieties about the test on Friday. We will take a few minutes to go over things tomorrow so long as I am in school.