WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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relatively flat land and covered by prairie grasses
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relatively flat land and covered by dense forest
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mountainous land with many canyons
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mountainous land with little vegetation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Natural vegetation in the Great Plains is dominated by grasses-tallgrass and medium grass prairie in the east and shortgrass and bunchgrass steppes in the west.
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: -Despite its name, the Great Plains region is not entirely flat, changing in elevation from 1830 meters (6000 feet) on its western edge to 460 meters (1500 feet) on its eastern edge.
Detailed explanation-4: -Prairies are defined as extensive areas of flat or rolling grasslands. In Minnesota these grasslands range from sparsely vegetated sand dunes to vast fields of big bluestem up to 8 feet tall, from wet meadows to shortgrass prairies high on the bluffs of the Minnesota River.