Inventions and Adaptation

What year was the Transcontinental Railroad completed? (Check the timeline)

• April 9, 1865

• June 25, 1876

• May 10, 1869

• May 20, 1873

The Transcontinental Railroad helps connect _______ to _________.

• the USA to Canada

• farmers to markets

• Alaska to the California

An invention is...

• Something completely new

• modified and made better

• an old idea everyone knows

The idea to take over the West, make money, and settle there

• The Civil War

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Manifest Destiny

• I think I need to review my notes

Why did settlers have to make sod houses on the Great Plains?

• they used wood to make houses

• the Great Plains were unlivable

• there was NOT a lot of wood so they used the roots/dirt to make sod bricks

• Sod houses were made back East

What invention or adaptation that helps settlers get water

• Steel plow

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Sod house

• Windmills

What type of environment is the Great Plains?

• big mountains, little rainfall

• flat, dry land, low rainfall

• flat, next to the ocean, wet

• dry, mountains, lots of rain

What inventions was used to break the soil for growing crops?

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Steel Plow

• Windmill

• Sod House