What are the five reasons for Westward Expansion? (Need to download presentation in order to listen to/view audio and video clips) Land Adventure Railroad Gold Escape discrimination Click to listen to Aaron Coplands Hoe Down Click to watch video on Buffalo Bill What were the physical features and climate like in the Great Plains during West Migration? Flat lands Low rainfall Erosion Dust storms The West went from being thought as ________ to _______ A Treeless Wasteland TO A land to be settled Painting by Georgia OKeeffe Planting seeds deep in the soil where it was still moist Dry Farming Used to dig deeply into the hard soil Steel Plow Used to pump water out of the ground Windmill Grown on the Great Plains because it can survive with limited amounts of water Wheat Farming Used to harvest wheat Reaper Types of fence used to protect crops from cattle. Barbed Wire Shelters made of dirt and grass bricks Sod House What two railroad companies built the Transcontinental Railroad? Where did each one start? Which primary immigrant group built that rail line? Central PacificUnion Pacific California Chinese workers Nebraska Irish workers Where did the Transcontinental Railroad meet? Promontory Point, Utah The ____ Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first law passed to limit immigration into the United States The CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT Click to watch video with amazing actors