Vocabulary 1
It is a large area of grasslands located in the central portion of the United States.
Great Plains
It means being extremely poor
poverty
Twisted steel wires strung between wooden fence posts. It made fencing easier and cheaper to build than fences made of wood or stones.
Barbed Wires
Nez Perce chief who led his people in battle to avoid being sent to a reservation.
Nez Perce
It means to wear away by wind or water
Erode
It is the process of changing to fit a purpose or situation
Adaptation
What farming was one of the few crops that did well on dry farms. It quickly became one of the major cash crops of the Great Plains.
Wheat Farming
Designed by John Deere, these were made to cut though the tough sad (surface of the ground) of the Plains
Steel Plow
A famous Apache leader who fought against westward expansion into Apache tribal lands
Geronimo
Shelters built of tough, prairie sod by settlers of the Great Plains
Sod House(s)
Dry Farming
This method of farming was developed in the late 1800s for use on the Great Plains due to low rainfall.
Dry Farming
It allowed settlers to use the wind to tap into underground water which was used for daily needs, watering livestocks, watering crops and even fuel railroad engines.
Windmills
Led the resistance against the Sioux with only 225 men and was defeated in the Battle of Little Bighorn
George Armstrong Custer
The act of carrying people or goods from one place to another
Transportation
A naturally occuring material that can be used by people
Natural Resources
It was hand-cut sod squares that contained long grass roots made flexible "bricks" that were strong enough to form walls and roofs. They keep families warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Sod Houses
It played an important role in westward movement of people into the Great Plains region.
Transcontinental Railroad
Led American Indian against US troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull
It means moving to a new place.
Relocation
A battle between the US Army led by Col. Custer and the Lakota and Cheyenne Warriors along the little Bighorn River in Montana. (Custer's Last Stand)
Battle of Little Bighorn
As farming industry grew and prospered in the Great Plains, so did the ________________. After the civil war, cattle ranches stretched across the Great Plains.
Beef Cattle Raising
Shelter built of tough, prairie sod by settlers of the Great Plains
Sod Houses
Massacre of Native Americans that took place at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 as the army pursued fleeing groups of Sioux Indians. This battle ended the Plains Indian Wars and the Plain Indians
Battle of Wounded Knee
Railroad line completed in 1869 that linked the east and west coasts of the US. It helped to move people, products, and raw materials across the continent.
Transcontinental Railroad