SEESEEHHSGOHHEHHHHHHHHHKEKHOKHHHOOHHGGHM US. History: Book 2 Name 7 Lesson 6 Handout 6 (page 1) Date Overcoming Geography: The Settlement of the West Part A. Listed below are the three distinct geographic sections of the West. Complete the chart by identifying each region's major assets and liabilities, then answer the questions that follow. - Availability of Land Great Plains ‘Timber | Climate Rocky Mountains Great American Desert 1. Which region would have been easiest for a pioneer to settle before 1860? Why? 2. Which region of the West would have been the most difficult for a pioneer to settle before 1860? Why? 3. What conclusion about the Indians does this chart allow you to make? (© COPYRIGHT, The Center for Learning, Used with permission. Not for sale 29US. History: Book 2 Name Lesson 6 Handout 6 (page 2) Date Part B. Listed below are technological breakthroughs and government policies that aided the settlement of the West. For each, write how the item helped the settler and note what geographic disadvantages the item helped the settler overcome. 1. Sod house: 2. Barbed wire: 8. Windmills: 4, Irrigation: 5. Screen windows: : 6. Buffalo chips: 7. Homestead Act: 8. Transcontinental railroad: 9. Government Indian policy: 10. The elimination of the buffalo: © COPYRIGHT, The Center for Learning, Used with permission, Not forsale 30 2 PG PPZOE29Y*99VFOVVAAPVWIAOMASGAABI@IAAT