Living on the Great Plains Vast prairie in the Midwest Region of the US Living on the Great Plains The states that are part of the Great Plains Living on the Great Plains What did people think about the Great Plains in the beginning ID: 599202
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What would you think about moving into this region?Slide2
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Vast prairie in the Midwest Region of the USSlide3
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The states that are
part of the Great
PlainsSlide4
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What did people think about the Great Plains in the beginning?
“Treeless wasteland”
“Ocean of grass”
“Big Sky”
“Great American
Desert”
Unsuitable for
habitationSlide5
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Vast, open gradually rising (East to West)
Grassland (Prairie) Slide7
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Low rainfall
Dry area most of the yearSlide8
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Few rivers
Trees along streams and riversSlide9
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Frequent dust stormsSlide10
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Land eroded by wind and waterSlide11
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Tornadoes in the springSlide12
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Winters with blizzardsSlide13
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"Blizzard Warning":
winds expected to exceed 30 knots (35 mph) and falling
or
blowing
snow will reduce visibility to less than a quarter-mile for at least 3 hours
"Stockmen's Warning": when severe winter weather threatens cattle in major ranching areas
"Traveler's Warnings":
when winter conditions make travel difficult or impossible
"Blizzard of 1997": killed nearly $4.7 million worth of livestock, caused $6 million in farm property damage, and cost farmers $21 million for extra feed consumption
1-2 feet of snow
typical in a blizzard, in a swath hundreds of miles wide and hundreds of miles long
Due to the low water content of the snow, blowing and drifting snow is an added problem; snow
drifts
can reach
10-20 feet in a blizzardSlide14
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Why if
it was
so “uninhabitable?”
Free land after 1862
Inventions made it usable.
Adaptations made it usable.Slide15
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Free land
from
the US GovernmentSlide16
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Steel Plow
John DeereSlide17
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Barbed WireSlide18
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WindmillsSlide19
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The Reaper and the CombineSlide20
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Wheat FarmingSlide21
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Dry farming-plow and plant in the fallSlide22
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Dry farming-Fields covered by snowSlide23
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Dry farming-New growth in the springSlide24
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Dry farming-Ripening wheat cropSlide25
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Dry farming-Harvesting wheatSlide26
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Beef cattle raisingSlide27
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Sod housesSlide28
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Sod house (soddie)Slide29
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RailroadSlide30
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RailroadSlide31
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Why was living on the Great Plains seen as a challenge to the first Americans crossing the Great Plains?
What inventions and new technology changed those
ideas
?
What ways did settlers use adaptations to make it possible to live on the Great Plains?