What were four hardships that faced frontier farmers?

Answer 1

Background:

In 1862, the Homestead Act offered free land to anybody who could meet a couple of requirement's You had to be able to pay ten dollars for all of the paperwork, be the head of a household, be at least 21 years old, and cultivate and improve the land. This Act encouraged many Americans and foreigners to move to the West.

Answer:

Some of the hardships faced by farmers who had moved to the west included suffering through a depression, living in fear that one day a natural disaster would wipe out their house, building a home (farmers usually ended up building Sod Houses because their was not a lot of lumber available), mosquito infestations and many other harsh conditions.

Answer 2

The frontier farmers in the late 1800's were a tough group of people. They were rushing to take their families to settle in the Western half of the United States. Sometimes they were so poor that they would let part of their family behind, hoping to get them later. Often that reunion never happened.

Sometimes they would rush to places that had been known to have abundant rainfall for crops, and all of a sudden there would be a drought.

There were few machines used for farming in those days, but horses and oxen supplied the power. The families were pretty much self-sufficient. They did not have stores to go to, they traded their food and crops and items they made between themselves.


The farmers tried to treat their families with home remedies and many times their loved ones died. People were afraid of being buried alive so they kept the bodies around for weeks after they died. Most all of the medicine was home made.

One man in a crowd made all the shoes. The width didn't matter and one shoe could be worn on either foot. And today we have to have a different pair for everything we do.

Travel was in wagons and took a long time. There were no quick runs anywhere. For the most part people were laid back, hard working, and overworked. But they made do, and seldom complained, and appreciated life. Maybe we have too much today.

Answer 3

Hardships homesteaders on the Great Plains faced included droughts, infertile land and scams from land owners.

Answer 4

1. drought

2.weather

3.no wood for housing

4.Indian raids

5.flooding

Answer 5

The farmers on the plains faced water shortages, heat and strong winds. They hard to till rock hard soil. Dust storms removed the topsoil, leaving them with infertile clay.

Answer 6

The Great Plain Settlers had many hardships such as ..........

The lack of building material's geography of the great plains ,and climatic condition's also faced isolation.

Answer 7

Lack of water, heavy winters with snow , drought , bugs eating crops, invasions of grasshoppers, seeds blowing away, animals freezing to death in harsh winters,

Answer 8

Droughts, Indian raids, windstorms