Najwa´s----quizizz for westward expansion

Perceptions mean?

• what people see, believe, and understand.

• another name for the Great Plains.

• floods, dust storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes.

• the ability to judge well.

Treeless wasteland means?

• floods, dust storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes.

• the gradual destruction or diminution of something.

• another name for the Great Plains.

• what people see, believe, and understand.

Natural Hazards means?

• the gradual destruction or diminution of something.

• what people see, believe, and understand.

• another name for the Great Plains.

• floods, dust storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes.

Erosion means?

• another name for the Great Plains.

• floods, dust storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes.

• what people see, believe, and understand.

• the gradual destruction or diminution of something.

Flatlands that ____ gradually from ____to ____

• Rise,East,West.

• West,North,East

• North,East,South

• Eroded,Wind,Water

What is this a picture of?

• mid rainfall

• high rainfall

• Low rainfall

what is picture about?

• wind

• Land eroded by wind and water

• rainfall

• a vast area to be settled

what is this picture about?

• fog

• rainfall

•  dust storms

• waterfall

Manifest Destiny meaning?

• a popular American belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across North America to the Pacific Ocean.

• an 1862 law that offered free farmland of 160 acres on the Great Plains to the head of a family that resided on and cultivated the land for 5 years.

• settlers in Oklahoma who took advantage of the free land act to get their own land

• Also moved all over Kansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma

The Homestead Act meaning?

• 160 acres of free land to anyone willing to live and work on that land for 5 years

• Sod Homes

• Railroads, especially the Transcontinental Railroad

• Barbed Wire