Analyze the Evidence

Question

How does John Wesley Powell’s vision of the settlement of the arid west differ from traditional homesteading?

View the background video and the maps and watershed video. Make observations about size/shape of properties, relationship to water, population distribution, and political relations that explain the Powell vision vs. traditional homesteading and write these into the evidence cells of the Concepts and Observations Chart.

	John Wesley Powell	Traditional Homestead
Size/shape of property
Relationship to water
Population distribution
Political relations