LETS GO WEST

What is the invention or adaptation shown below?

• Mechanical Reaper

• Steel Plow

• Dry Farming

• Windmill

Answer explanation

The steel plow helps break up tough soil and makes it easier for farmers to plant crops.

What reason to go West includes escaped slaves and newly freed people heading West for land?

• Environment

• Land

• Slaves and Exodusters

• Transportation

Answer explanation

Many former slaves moved out of the racist South and headed West for land and freedom.

What adaptation did people use to move West quickly?

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Mechanical Reaper

• Windmill

• Dry Farming

Answer explanation

An adaptation that helped settlers get water from the ground to drink, water their crops, and livestock

• windmill

• barbed wire

• dry farming

• mechanical reaper

Answer explanation

What type of environment is the Great Plains?

• dry, lots of trees, little rainfall

• dry, mountains, with lots of rain

• dry, flat, with little rainfall

Answer explanation

There was not a lot of rain in the Great Plains and is the perfect environment for wheat.

What opportunity helped people get 160 - acres of land if they build a house and farm on the land for at least five years.

• The Homestead Act

• Slaves and Exodusters

• Environment

• Gold

Answer explanation

Many people went West looking for _______, but few people found it.

• Land

• Environment

• Transportation

• Gold

Answer explanation

The California Gold Rush began in 1849, many people moved to California in search of gold. Few found any riches.

What invention kept cows and other livestock on their land and kept bandits out.

• Dry Farming

• Barbed Wire

• Sod Houses

• Windmill

Answer explanation

A type of building created out of grasses and dried mud bricks where people lived on the Great Plains.

• Sod Houses

• Dry Farming

• Steel Plow

• Windmill

Answer explanation

There were not a lot of trees in the Great Plains so settlers built their houses out of sod.

The Mechanical Reaper was an adaptation that...

• Get the water out of the ground

• Cut wheat for harvest

• Break the hard soil

• Raise cattle

Answer explanation

The mechanical reaper was a faster way of cutting wheat than cutting by hand.