portrait of a “typical” homesteaders
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Portrait of a “typical” homesteaders. By Mateusz Popiel. Dificulties for first homesteaders. Lack of drinking water Lack of medicine (alcohol as universal medicine) Poor education opportunities Poverty Hard ground for plants Small communities Big families Difficulties in communication - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
By Mateusz Popiel
Portrait of a “typical” homesteaders
Lack of drinking waterLack of medicine (alcohol as universal medicine)Poor education opportunitiesPovertyHard ground for plantsSmall communitiesBig familiesDifficulties in communicationDifficulties with transport caused by lack of
good roads
Dificulties for first homesteaders
Big family – more than 5 kidsForeignersOnly few dollars at the beginningSmall knowledge of farmingHomesickness (for old countries or lands)
Typical homesteaders
Far away from schoolsSometimes unable to go to school during
summer or inter seasonDifferent ideologies
Education opportnities
Willing to help country Wish of adventureHope for better lifeFree landPovertyGold rush (little bit later)
Factor's that moves people to look for luck during western expansion
Serve for country (sometimes new country)Survive in prairieRaise plantsSettled own farmEducate children of past Build up own community
Important values of pioneer life
As a life story during Western expansion we might use example of Willa Cather
She settled with her family in small town (Red Cloud) in Nebraska when she was a kid
She struggle to get education and instead help on family farm like other homesteaders kids
After she grew up and become adult she moved into eastern cities to get higher education
She start her own career as a writers and get popularity writing mainly about life in new discovered lands as homesteaders
Life story of Willa Cather
Hard work all year no matter what season or weather
Often struggling with male workHard time with organizing food for all familyNot equal rights for women at that timeDiscrimination (voting rights for woman not
until 1920 in USA)Stereotype of woman
Life stories of women during the Western expansion
When women get voting rights in USA_ _ _ _
Name the town where Willa Cather lived with family at the beginning her life in Nebraska
_ _ _ _ Name the universal medicine back them
_ _ _ _
Did all settler know the English language?_ _ _ _
Did kids back the have good education opportunities_ _ _ _
Quiz