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WorksheetsWestward Expansion Warm-up
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
- Flatlands that rise gradually from East to West
- Land eroded by wind and water
- Low rainfall/frequent dust storms
The above chart describes the features of the?
Midwest Region
Great Plains
Rocky Mountains
Noncontiguous
As a result of new technologies that allowed people to live in more challenging environments, people began to see the Great Plains not as a "treeless wasteland," but as a____________.
Desert environment with little promise of farming success
A vast area to be settled
An area with an abundance of lakes and streams
An environment with rich soil and stable temperatures
This invention enabled settlers of the Great Plains to deal with the lack of lakes and streams.
Windmill
Barbed wire
Canals
Automatic Irrigation System
- Barbed wire
- Steel plows
- Beef cattle raising
- Wheat farming
- Railroads
What is the best title for the above graphic organizer?
New inventions used by miners in boomtowns
Reasons for the Destruction of the buffalo
Major inventions and adaptations related to life on the Great Plains
Which adaptation allowed Plains farmers to reach moisture deep below the earths surface?
Barbed wire
Dry farming
Reaper
Cotton gin
Plains farmers built these because wood on the Plains was scarce.
Log cabins
Grass huts
Sod Houses
Teepees
- Loss of buffalo due to the slaughter by white men
- Loss of open land when confined to reservations
- Armed conflict with the US Army
- Passage of the Dawes Act
A good title for the above chart would be?
Many losses on the frontier
Good news for Native Americans
Causes of the loss of Native American traditions and culture
Chief Joseph's pursuit
The Indian Peace Commission established by the federal government in 1867 recommended the Native Americans be moved to_________________.
Flood plains
Reservations
Oklahoma
Mexico
George Armstrong Custer and his men were defeated at _________.
Walla Valley
Black Hills
Chief Black Kettle's territory
The Battle of Little Bighorn
- Battle of Little Bighorn - 1876
- Massacre at Sand Creek - 1864
- Battle of Bear Paw Mountain - Chief Joseph surrenders - 1877
- Wounded Knee - 1890
A good title for this chart would be_________.
Indian Reservations
Land used for farms
Annual rainfall
Indian wars in the West
