USII.2a Life on the Great Plains

Which one of these is NOT a feature of the Great Plains?

• Low rainfall
• Misty weather
• Frequent dust storms
• Flatlands that rise east to west

Which one of these is a feature of the Great Plains?

• Old eroded mountains
• Misty weather
• Rolling hills
• Flatlands that rise east to west

Which one of these is NOT a reason why people moved west?

• Adventure
• New factories
• Technological advances, including the Transcontinental Railroad
• A new beginning for former slaves

Which one of these is NOT a reason why people moved west?

• New boomtowns
• Possibility of obtaining wealth with the discovery of gold and silver
• Technological advances, including the Transcontinental Railroad
• A new beginning for former slaves

Which of these is a reason why people moved west?

• New factories
• Over population in the east
• Opportunities for land ownership (Homestead act)
• Lack of gold in the east

What did people start seeing the Great Plains as?

• A vast area to be settled
• A strip of land
• A large area of flat land
• a treeless wasteland

Which  one of these is a feature of the Great Plains?

• Low rainfall
• Frequent tornadoes
• many thunderstorms
• tall jagged mountains

Identify the Great Plains region using the map

• Green
• Yellow
• Pink
• Blue

What is a homestead?

• frontier land claimed by a settler
• a steady home for soldiers
• a term used by many African Americans
• A name given to the first settlers to farm the Great Plains

A term used by many African American settlers on the Great Plains to describe themselves is called...

• homestead
• Sodbuster
• Exodusters
• black code