Here are the words for the week of September 17. Write and practice them for a summative quiz at the end of the week!
- Great Plains: the land between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River
- Homestead Act: a law that gave settlers land on the Great Plains for a low price
- drought: a long time with no rain
- famine: a long time with no food
- Lonely: Alone
- Locust: insects that eat your crops
- weapons: things used to hurt and protect people
- settlers: people who lived in the Great Plains
- reservations: Places for the Native Americans to live
- expand: to become larger
- immigrants: people who leave their country and live in a new country
- dangerous: not safe
- connect: to bring two things together
- plain: flat land
