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What were the physical features and climate like in the Great Plains during West Migration?

What were the physical features and climate like in the Great Plains during West Migration? . Flat lands. Low rainfall . FLED. Erosion. Dust storms. What are the five reasons for Westward Expansion? . Land. Adventure. LARGE. Railroad. Gold. Escape discrimination. Windmill.

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What were the physical features and climate like in the Great Plains during West Migration?

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  1. What were the physical features and climate like in the Great Plains during West Migration?

  2. Flat lands Low rainfall FLED Erosion Dust storms

  3. What are the five reasons for Westward Expansion?

  4. Land Adventure LARGE Railroad Gold Escape discrimination

  5. Windmill

  6. Used to pump water out of the ground

  7. Barbed Wire

  8. Types of fence used to protect crops from cattle.

  9. Sod House

  10. Shelters made of dirt and grass bricks

  11. Reaper

  12. Used to harvest wheat

  13. Steel Plow

  14. Used to dig deeply into the hard soil

  15. Dry Farming

  16. Planting seeds deep in the soil where it was still moist

  17. Wheat Farming

  18. Grown on the Great Plains because it can survive with limited amounts of water

  19. Transcontinental Railroad

  20. California Nebraska • Central Pacific • Chinese workers • Union Pacific • Irish workers

  21. Where did the Transcontinental Railroad meet?

  22. Promontory Point, Utah

  23. General Custer

  24. Fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn • Known as Custer’s Last Stand • Battle between Lakota Sioux and U.S. Army

  25. Geronimo

  26. Apache Chief • Led raids against US Army • Was the last American Indian to formally surrender

  27. Chief Joseph

  28. “I am tired of fighting…from where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.” • Fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn

  29. Battle of Wounded Knee

  30. Ghost Dance • Sioux tribe started the Ghost Dance • Fighting broke out • Sitting Bull killed

  31. Reservation

  32. Native American tribes forced off their own land

  33. Assimilation

  34. The US government’s attempt to change American Indians to fit into US culture

  35. What are the negative effects on American Indians during Westward Expansion

  36. Reduced buffalo population • Forced lifestyle changes • War & disease

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