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What are the five reasons for Westward Expansion? (Need to download presentation in order to listen to/view audio and video clips)

Land Adventure Railroad Gold Escape discrimination Click to listen to Aaron Copland’s “Hoe Down” Click to watch video on “Buffalo Bill”

What were the physical features and climate like in the Great Plains during West Migration?

Flat lands Low rainfall Erosion Dust storms

The West went from being thought as ________ to _______

A Treeless Wasteland TO A land to be settled Painting by Georgia O’Keeffe

Planting seeds deep in the soil where it was still moist

Dry Farming

Used to dig deeply into the hard soil

Steel Plow

Used to pump water out of the ground

Windmill

Grown on the Great Plains because it can survive with limited amounts of water

Wheat Farming

Used to harvest wheat

Reaper

Types of fence used to protect crops from cattle.

Barbed Wire

Shelters made of dirt and grass bricks

Sod House

What two railroad companies built the Transcontinental Railroad? Where did each one start? Which primary immigrant group built that rail line?

Central PacificUnion Pacific California Chinese workers Nebraska Irish workers

Where did the Transcontinental Railroad meet?

Promontory Point, Utah

The ____ Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first law passed to limit immigration into the United States

The CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT Click to watch video with amazing actors