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2a: Physical features and climate of the Great Plains
• Flatlands that rise gradually from east to west
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2a: Physical features and climate of the Great Plains
• Land eroded by wind and water.
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2a: Physical features and climate of the Great Plains
• Low rainfall.
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2a: Physical features and climate of the Great Plains
• Frequent dust storms
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2a
Because of new technologies, people saw the Great Plains not as a “treeless wasteland” but as a vast area to be settled.
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2a: Inventions and adaptations
• Barbed wire
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2a: Inventions and adaptations
• Steel Plows
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2a: Inventions and adaptations
• Dry farming
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2a: Inventions and adaptations
• Sod houses
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2a: Inventions and adaptations
• Beef cattle raising
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2a: Inventions and adaptations
• Wheat farming
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2a: Inventions and adaptations
• Windmills
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2a: Inventions and adaptations
• Railroads