Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 8, Lesson 3, Problems Facing Agriculture (pp. 195-199)
I. Water Problems
B. Other farmers lost crops to spring floods.
They built high ridges called levees.
II. Land Problems
B. After the Mussel Slough farmers built irrigation systems
and planted crops, the railroads sold the improved land to other buyers.
III. Patterns for the Future
B. Tenant farmers pay rent to use land that belongs to someone else.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. Since there was little summer rain in some parts of California,
the farmers made irrigation systems by digging trenches to a nearby river.
A. The Southern Pacific, who owned one of every ten acres in the state,
decided to sell the land at Mussel Slough to farmers.
A. Crews of workers called migrant laborers do most of the work
on the large farms.
1. Migrant laborers have come to California from around the world.
2. Migrant workers get low pay.
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