Answer the following in at least 4-6 complete sentences each and with supportive details:

1. What caused the cattle business to decline in the late 1800s?

2. How did hydraulic mining affect the environment?

3. What challenges did Plains farmers face?

4. How did the Homestead Act support settlement in the Plains?

5. How did the Native Americans respond to the loss of land to white settlement of the Great Plains?

Remember to write in your own words and in complete sentences.

First industrial era, History assignment