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

2. Flat lands Low rainfall Erosion Dust storms

3. What are the five reasons for Westward Expansion?

4. Land Adventure Railroad Gold Escape discrimination

5. Windmill

6. Used to pump water out of the ground

7. Barbed Wire

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

9. Sod House

10. Shelters made of dirt and grass bricks

11. Reaper

12. Used to harvest wheat

13. Steel Plow

14. Used to dig deeply into the hard soil

15. Dry Farming

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

17. Wheat Farming

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

19. Transcontinental Railroad

20. CaliforniaNebraska Central Pacific Chinese workers Union Pacific Irish workers

21. Where did the Transcontinental Railroad meet?

22. Promontory Point, Utah

23. General Custer

24. Fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn Known as Custer’s Last Stand Battle between Lakota Sioux and U.S. Army

25. Geronimo

26. Apache Chief Led raids against US Army Was the last American Indian to formally surrender

27. Chief Joseph

28. “I am tired of fighting…from where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.” Fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn

29. Battle of Wounded Knee

30. Ghost Dance Sioux tribe started the Ghost Dance Fighting broke out – Sitting Bull killed

31. Reservation

32. Native American tribes forced off their own land

33. Assimilation

34. The US government’s attempt to change American Indians to fit into US culture

35. What are the negative effects on American Indians during Westward Expansion

36. Reduced buffalo population Forced lifestyle changes War & disease