1. Technological Advances
• Progress in
the use of
scientific
discoveries
for practical
use.
2. Erode
• The movement
of soil from one
place to another
through natural
processes.
– Examples: Wind and
rain.
3. Dust Storm
• A strong wind carrying clouds of
dust across or from a dry region.
4. Barbed Wire
• Wire with sharp points on it
every few inches, used for
fencing.
5. Steel Plow
• A steel farm
tool used for
cutting and
lifting the soil
and turning it
over.
6. Sod Houses
• Houses made of stacked sod, which
are pieces or layers of dirt
containing the grass and its roots.
7. Beef Cattle Raising
• Raising cattle
for the purpose
of selling the
meat of the
animal at
market as a
means of
income.
8. Wheat Farming
• The growing of
wheat for the
purpose of selling
the crop at
market as a
sustainable
means of income
on the Great
Plains.
9. Windmills
•A machine
worked by
the action of
wind used to
pump water.
10. Dry Farming
• A way of
farming dry
land in which
seed are
planted deep in
the ground
where there is
some moisture.
11. Transcontinental Railroad
• A railroad project
contracted by the
U.S. government
in 1863 &
completed in
1869 linking the
east and west
coasts.
NOTE: The Union Pacific built from the east, & the Central Pacific from the
west.
The two lines met in Utah. The Central Pacific laborers were mostly Chinese,
and the Union Pacific laborers mostly Irish.
12. Migration
• The movement of people or
animals from one place to
another.
13. Great Plains (Prairie)
• The Great Plains
are a broad
expanse of flat
land, which lies
west of the
Mississippi River
and east of the
Rocky Mountains
in the United
States.
This area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado,
Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and
Wyoming.
14. Treaty
• A signed,
formal
agreement or
understanding
between two
individuals or
groups of
people.
15. Assimilation
• To adapt
and
conform to
the customs
or attitudes
of a group
or nation.
16. Reservation
• A tract of
public land
set apart for a
special purpose
such as the use
of an American
Indian tribe.
17. Geronimo
• This Native–American
was an Apache war chief
who was opposed to
Westward Expansion.
– He took revenge on the Mexicans
& settlers of the Southwest for
the murder of his wife, mother, &
three children.
– He later surrendered to U.S.
authorities & remained a prisoner
of war until his death in 1909.
Geronimo 1887
Actual signature above.
18. Chief Joseph
• This Native-American
chief of a Nez Perce tribe
in Idaho who was
opposed to Westward
Expansion.
– He tried to move his people to
Canada, while fighting off the U.S.
military, but eventually surrendered
and relocated to a reservation
rather than see more of his people
die.
– Upon his surrender he stated,
“From where the sun now stands, I
will fight no more forever.”
19. Sitting Bull
• Native-American chief
of the Sioux nation
who was opposed to
Westward Expansion.
– He is most famous for the multi-tribal
victory known as the battle of Little
Big Horn or Custer’s Last Stand in 1876.
– Sitting Bull would later surrender in
1881 and be forced onto a reservation
where he is killed by Indian police in
1890.
Actual signature above.
20. Nez Perce`
• This Native-American
tribal nation lived
mainly in the Pacific
Northwest of the
United States; the
name translates to
“The People.”
• Their descendants
now inhabit a
reservation in Idaho.