Westward migration

The Homestead Act of 1862 helped the development of the West by

• providing free land to settlers

• granting land for construction of transcontinental railroads

• allowing slavery to spread to the territories

• placing Native American Indians on reservations

What region is described as a “treeless wasteland” with flatlands that gradually rise in elevation, low rainfall, dust storms and erosion from wind and water?

• Rocky Mountains

• Pacific Coast

• Great Plains

• Atlantic Coastal Plain

Which technological tool was needed to break up tough dry soil?

• Steel Plow

• Dry Farming

• Barbed Wire

• WIndmill

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• Great Awakening

• Louisiana Purchase

How did farmers adapt to the geographic hardships of the Great Plains?

• They created irrigation systems to remedy drought.

• They utilized the neighboring Native American Tribes.

• They created new technologies to help them farm

• They created new technology such as telegraph and railways.

The great American Desert is ?

• Great Plains

• The West Coast

• The East Coast

What technology did farmers use to help them navigate farming on the Great Plains?

• Dry Farming

• Steel Plows

• Threshing machine

• seed drill

This event marked the closing of the frontier.

• Morril land grant act

• Homestead Act

• Oklahoma Land Rush

• The Memphis Cotton Exchange

What did the Homestead Act do?

• gave homesteaders 160 acres if they farmed the land for five years

• gave states 30,000 acres to sell and to fund colleges or create new ones for agriculture and mechanical engineering.