“A plains environment is … sub-humid [dry]....The Great Plains offered such a contrast to the [eastern] regions .. The ways of travel, the weapons, the method of tilling the soil, the plows, and other agricultural implements, and even the laws themselves were modified” - Walter Prescott Webb


In what ways did settlers have to adapt to deal with the physical features of the Great Plains?

They had to develop new methods for farming in wet regions.

They changed the farming practices they used in the East only slightly.

They had to develop new methods of farming in dry regions.

The settlers were unable to farm in the Great Plains.