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

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

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

4. Flat lands Low rainfall Erosion Dust storms

5. The West went from being thought as ________ to _______

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

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

8. Dry Farming

9. Used to dig deeply into the hard soil

10. Steel Plow

11. Used to pump water out of the ground

12. Windmill

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

14. Wheat Farming

15. Used to harvest wheat

16. Reaper

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

18. Barbed Wire

19. Shelters made of dirt and grass bricks

20. Sod House

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

22. Central PacificUnion Pacific California Chinese workers Nebraska Irish workers

23. Where did the Transcontinental Railroad meet?

24. Promontory Point, Utah

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

26. The CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT Click to watch video with amazing actors