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1. Physical Features of the Great Plains
2. Railroads
3. Housing: the Great Plains lacked _________, so these were used.
4. Technology addressing low rainfall
5. Technology addressing dry, dusty soil
6. Farming on the Great Plains
7. Technology addressing migration of lifestock

Wheat

Dry farming

Sod houses

Windmills

Erosion

Transportation

Flat

Dust Storms

Beef ranching

Barbed wire

Rising from East to West

Cheap land by tracks

Irrigation

Trees

John Deere

Steel Plow

Low rainfall