USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Barbed wire, invented in 1874, solved the problem of building fences on the Great Plains. Wood for fences wasn’t easily available, since there were not many trees in the region. Barbed wire was affordable and easy to put up. Railroads were an important technological advance that made it possible to settle the West.

Detailed explanation-2: -How did people’s perceptions and use of the Great Plains change after the Civil War? Because of new technologies, people began to see the Great Plains not as a “treeless wasteland", but as a vast area to be settled.

Detailed explanation-3: -To help make life easier in the Great Plains some inventions were created: 1) Barbed wire-a company by the name of Glidden created the first barbed wire designed to keep livestock in, and Indians out. 2) Steel Plow-was created by John Deere to quickly plow large areas of land.

Detailed explanation-4: -The population of the Great Plains grew steadily, new farming methods and inventions in the nineteenth century improved agriculture, and gardens. These are some of the factors that contributed to the development of the development of the Great Plains as a major agricultural region.