The Great Plains Flashcards
1
Q
What were the Great Plains?
A
Grasslands
2
Q
What did early explorers call the Great Plains?
A
The Great American Desert
3
Q
Who described the Plains as ‘unfit for cultivation’?
A
Major Stephen Long
4
Q
Why was the huge vastness of the Great Plains a problem for the early settlers?
A
Isolation
5
Q
What were the ‘Northers’?
A
Winter hail and blizzards
6
Q
How are the Native Americans sometimes referred to?
A
The First Nations
7
Q
What did the Native Americans do long before the settlers arrived at the Great Plains?
A
Lived successfully in the ‘Great American Desert’
8
Q
When did the development of the American West begin?
A
1840
9
Q
What were the Great Plains particularly short of?
A
Trees
10
Q
Which of these animals was native to the Great Plains?
A
Wolves
