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

Flat lands

Low rainfall

Erosion

Dust storms

What are the five reasons for Westward Expansion?

Land

Adventure

Railroad

Gold

Escape discrimination

Windmill

Used to pump water out of the ground

Barbed Wire

Types of fence used to protect crops from cattle.

Sod House

Shelters made of dirt and grass bricks

Reaper

Used to harvest wheat

Steel Plow

Used to dig deeply into the hard soil

Dry Farming

Planting seeds deep in the soil where it was still moist

Wheat Farming

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

Transcontinental Railroad

California Nebraska

• Central Pacific• Chinese workers

• Union Pacific• Irish workers

Where did the Transcontinental Railroad meet?

Promontory Point, Utah

General Custer

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

Geronimo

• Apache Chief• Led raids against US Army• Was the last American Indian to formally

surrender

Chief Joseph

“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

Battle of Wounded Knee

Ghost Dance

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

Reservation

Native American tribes forced off their own land

Assimilation

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

What are the negative effects on American Indians during

Westward Expansion

• Reduced buffalo population• Forced lifestyle changes•War & disease