Vocabulary
a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
A. Drought
B. Dry-spell
C. Desert
A. Drought
Name one reason settlers began moving west into the Great Plains and across to California?
Gold, land, opportunity, adventure, new life, etc.
Indians were nomads meaning they had no permanent what?
homes
What invention allowed fences to be built with less wood?
Barbed Wire
What was the geography of the Great Plains?
open grasslands, flat lands
Houses on the Great Plains were mostly made of a dirt/grass mixture known as what?
A. Clay
B. Sod
C. Thatch
B. Sod
What group of people did not believe that land should be owned?
Native Americans
What temporary homes did Native Americans live in along the Great Plains
Teepee
What form of transportation allowed settlers to travel the Great Plains quicker?
Horseback < Railroad (Trains)
What crop did most farmers grow on the Great Plains?
Wheat
Huge farms that hundreds of people worked on were known as what?
A. Plantations
B. Farmsteads
C. Bonanza Farms
C. Bonanza Farms
Indians who were forced off of land in the Great Plains were relocated to:
A. Reservations
B. Prison Camps
C. Mexico
A. Reservations
What animal was essential to the survival of Native Americans along the Great Plains
Buffalo
How did Farmers on the Great Plains get water?
Well with Windmill
How many years did Homesteaders have to survive before land officially became theres?
5 years
This Act gave settlers 160 acres of land on the Great Plains:
A. Homestead Act
B. Great Plains Act
C. Land Act of 1863
A. Homestead Act
How many acres of land was promised to settlers with the Homestead Act?
160
What part of the buffalo did Native American's use?
And for what?
all of it (bones, fur, bladder, etc.)
Clothing, teepees, weapons, tools, bowls
What was found in California that caused the need to get across the United States quicker?
Gold
What main animal did cowboys herd along the Great Plains?
longhorns, cattle
a man, typically one on horseback, who herds and tends cattle, especially in the western US and the great plains:
A. Pioneer
B. 49ers
C. Cowboy
C. Cowboy
Who was not allowed to own land in the Great Plains with the Homestead Act?
A. Union (North)
B. Confederates (South)
B. Confederates (South)
Westward expansion left Indians with one choice to stop settlers from taking all of the land. What eventually happened along the Great Plains and what was the result?
War
American Settlers won, leading to greater expansion of America
What does Transcontinental mean?
Across the continent
Describe any hardships people faced on the Great Plains
Drought, starvation, poverty, tornados, locusts, hostile neigbors, etc.