Mr H
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1. Homesteaders and Farming the Plains (2004) (25 mks) | Quote: | Source A: Thomas Allen Bunting describes his mother's life in Kansas. The family moved to Kansas in 1855.
I have often wondered how my mother stood it with a family of children and no one to help her but my oldest sister. We used candles which my mother made by pouring melted wax into moulds. We used soap my mother made by dripping water slowly through a barrel of wood ash to get the alkali and potash.
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| Quote: | Source B: A woman recalls the effect of heavy rain on a sod house in the 1860s.
Sometimes the water would drip on the stove while I was cooking and I would have to keep a lid on the pans to prevent mud falling into the food. With my dress pinned up, I waded around until the clouds rolled by. |
| Quote: | Source C: A homesteader and his plough
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Question 1
(a) Study sources A, B and C.
What can you learn from these sources about teh problems faced by the early homesteaders? (5)
(b) Use your own knowledge to explain why people began farming the Plains in the early 1860s in spite of the difficulties they faced. (
(c) Use your own knowledge.
EITHER
(i) What part did new technology play in solving the problems of farming the Plains? Explain your answer. (12)
OR
(ii) Explain why farming the Plains changed so much in the years c. 1860 to c. 1895. (12)
Total 25 marks
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