Westward Expansion Review 3rd and 4th Block

Invention and Adaptation Sort Invention Barbed Wire Railroads Steel Plow Windmill Adaptation Wheat Farming Beef Cattle Raising Dry Farming Sod Houses List five reasons for the increase in westward expansion.(Why did people move west? DTACO) Click on the blank line to view the word bank. You may need to scroll down to see all the choices. Pick the term that completes each sentence. American Indian homelands were reduced because of broken treaties.The Great Plains can be described as having flat lands that gradually rise from east to west.Because of new technologies, people began to see the Great Plains not as a treeless wasteland, but as a vast area to be settled.The reduction of the buffalo population caused many American Indians to need to assimilate into the American culture.American Indians were forced to relocate from their traditional homelands onto reservations.The climate of the Great Plains consists of low rainfall and frequent dust storms.The Transcontinental Railroad transformed America by providing a way to ship goods across the country.