Inventions
Adaptations
Climate
People
Vocabulary
100
What do steel plows do?
Cut through the tough layer of Sod to reveal the good soil underneath
100
Without access to wood, houses were built from what
Sod
100
True or False the Flatland of the great plains were good for farming
False
100
In exchange for farming the land for 5 years homesteaders would receive what?
160 acres of land
100
What is Sod
The top layer of tough parie soil
200
Which Invention could provide a farm water
Windmill
200
What is Dry Farming
Digging deeper so that you can farm with better soil and less water
200
Wind and Rain caused what on the great plains
Erosion
200
49ers moved to where? In search of what?
California
Gold
200
What is the Homestead Act
Government Act to provide citizens 160 acres of free land if they farm it for 5 years
300
Two results of the Transcontinental Railroad
1. Linked the country from coast to coast
2. Forced Native Americans off their land
3. Killed the Buffalo
300
What two adaptations are a result of constant drought in the great plains
Dry Farming
Wheat Farming
300
Drought resulted from which letter of F.R.E.D
R. ain fall was low
300
Which government act was deisigned to help newly freed enslaved people after the civil war
The Homestead Act
300
What is Drought
A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions
400
Which invention ended the era of Cowboys
Barbed Wire
400
People who failed to farm instead raised what to make money
Beef Cattle Raising
400
What is happening
Duststorm
400
Which group of people were often called Vaqueros
Cowboys
400
what is the difference between an invention and adaption
Invention is a New device
Adaptation is changing something that already exists
500
Which westward expansion invention is still important to the city of Richmond today
Railroad
500
How are Sod Homes an Adapation of Normal Homes
The use of Sod
500
The great plains being difficult to farm most negatively impacted which group of people
Cowboys, Homesteaders, Native Ameircans
Homesteaders
500
How long had the Native Americans been living on the Great Plains prior to westward expansion
8,000-10,000 years
500
Define Manifest Destiny
The belief that it is America's right to expand from coast to coast