Impacts of Nature
what type of fire impacted farmers?
Prairie Fires
Droughts cause a lack of ___.
Water
Why did child education suffer in rural areas?
There were very few schools and they were very far apart.
Why was farmer's jobs stressful?
They worked long hours and had to deal with bad weather and failing crops.
What year did Boll Weevils started to become a problem?
1892
Droughts can cause another natural disaster called ____
Wildfires
What was the result of being far away from hospitals?
Farmers never received check-ups or treatments for disease and chronic health problems.
Why were farmer's social life with neighbors so limited?
They were miles away from their Neighbors.
What is a Boll weevil?
A small beetle that ate cotton crops.
What halted railways?
Cricket bodies.
Other than the distance from the schools, why else did children not go to school?
They were working on the fields they lived on.
Why was it hard to have a nice family life?
Living and doing work on a single property made it hard to separate business stress from a calm family life.
what year did the wild west start going through issues of grasshoppers and insect infestation that became catastrophic for normal day living
1874
The ________ was founded by President Theodore Roosevelt to study rural life and improve schools, roads, and healthcare.
Country Life Commission
What did farmers lack back in the 1890s that would've allowed them to interact with each other without physically seeing them?
Communication Technology.
What is an acreage?
A plot of land that can be measured in acres.
Name 3 things other than crops that grasshoppers destroyed.
Wooden handles of rakes and pitchforks, leather of saddles and harnesses, wool off sheep, and paint off of walls.
What was the point of the farmer's alliance?
Mainly unite farmers against economic suffering such as railroad prices.
Name the 2 places/times where farmers could interact with each other.
During Market Days or Church Services in the closest possible towns.