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 what life was like on the Great Plains for settlers and explain how the adapted to the conditions

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 what life was like on the Great Plains for settlers and explain how the adapted to the conditions

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Q: How did the settlers survive the extreme conditions and weather?

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Q: How did the settlers survive the extreme conditions and weather?

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A:  “Settlers were called sodbusters because they had to break through the sod to plant crops. There was not a lot of wood, so settlers used sod to build homes. Winters were long and cold. Summers were hot and dry.” -Summary: life in the Great Plains
In addition to this paragraph, the way they survived is by adapting to the extreme conditions the Great Plains had.

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A:  In the Great Plains, it was very dry.  Farmers couldn’t even grow water-dependent crops.  So the settlers got water from rivers in the Rocky Mountains. These rivers are dependent on the melt of snowpack in the mountains that sends water to the Central Plains when it is needed most, during the growing season.
-Encyclopaedia of the Great Plains|WATER

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A:  By the 1870s and 1880s the Great Plains has been “tamed” and more welcoming towards settlers.  The government moved to encourage permanent settlements in the West by offering land to homesteaders. The Great Plains were mainly populated by farming families due to the giant fields that can be used for their farming business.  Unfortunately in the Great Plains rain was hard to come by so farming was Scarce and expensive since they didn’t make a lot of money.  The grounds underneath the grass was hard, making moist soil for farming nowhere in the plains.

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Q: What kind of weather would settlers expect?

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Q: What kind of weather would settlers expect?

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A:  The weather in the Great Plains could be extreme.  Much of the plains experience cold winters and warm summers.  High winds, and sudden changes in temperature. It hardly ever rains also.

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Q: How did American settlers feed their family and animals?

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Q: How did American settlers feed their family and animals?

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A:  Settlers grew lots of wheat.  In the 1890s western Plains farmers began dry farming, a new method of farming that shifted the focus away from water-dependent crops such as corn. Instead, farmers grew more hardy crops like red wheat.  The Plains then framed so much bread that it started being called the breadbasket of the world.