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What name did the first explorers of the Great Plains give the area?
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Great American Desert
Wheat Belt
Indian Territory
Unfit Frontier
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Which of the following were not hardships that early settlers on the Great Plains faced?
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too many trees
prairie fires
swarms of grasshoppers
scorching summers
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What name did the first explorers of the Great Plains give the area?
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Which of the following were not hardships that early settlers on the Great Plains faced?
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Deep deposits of lead that contained large amounts of silver led to the creation of one of the most legendary boomtowns that dotted the mining frontier,
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What brought the first wave of settlers to the West?
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Although only a fraction of the herds survived when ranchers rounded up their cattle in 1866 and drove them to Sedalia, Missouri, it was the first
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Eventually, and after considerable loss of life, the open range was largely fenced off with a new invention called
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Settlement in the Great Plains was promoted by the railroads and supported by
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The Great Plains extends westward to the Rocky Mountains from around the 100th meridian-a line running north and south from the central Dakotas through
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By the 1860s, farmers on the Plains were adopting newly designed steel plows, seed drills, reapers, and
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In 1859 when prospector Henry Comstock staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada, the sticky blue-gray mud there turned out to be
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A tract of public land available for settlement
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Planting seeds deep in the ground where there was enough moisture for them to grow
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Often brought their owners big profits
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Productive farm area that began at the eastern edge of the Great Plains
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Explored the Great Plains in 1819
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The major route north to Abilene, Kansas
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Process of extracting shallow deposits of ore largely by hand
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Self-appointed volunteers to track down and punish wrongdoers
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Vast areas of grassland owned by the federal government