WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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vast desert occupied by savage tribes
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the grassland that filled the central portion of the United States.
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the grassland and desert that ran west of the United States.
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the grassland extending through the west central portion of the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Central Great Plains are a semiarid prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Plains (French: Grandes Plaines), sometimes simply “the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland.
Detailed explanation-3: -Parts of 10 U.S. states lie within the Great Plains. They are Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The Great Plains also extend into Canada, into portions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Northern Great Plains spans more than 180 million acres and crosses five U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. As large as California and Nevada combined, this short-and mixed-grass prairie is one of only four remaining intact temperate grasslands in the world.