1. How did our view change of the great plains

2. Change of Perspective
TREELESS WASTELAND
VAST AREA TO BE SETTLED

3. What are the physical features of the great plains?

4. Flat lands
Low rainfall
FLED
Erosion
Dust storms

5. What are the reasons for westward expansion?
Why did we move West?

6. Land
Adventure
LARGE
Railroad
Gold
Escape discrimination

7. What are the new technologies of the great plains

8. Windmills
Steel Plow
Wheat Farming
Railroads
Barbed Wire
Sod Houses
Reaper
Beef Cattle Ranching

9. Windmill

10. Used to pump water out of the ground

11. Barbed Wire

12. Types of fence used to protect crops from cattle.

13. Sod House

14. Shelters made of dirt and grass bricks

15. Reaper

16. Used to harvest wheat

17. Steel Plow

18. Used to dig deeply into the hard soil

19. Dry Farming

20. Planting seeds deep in the soil where it was still moist

21. Wheat Farming

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