Key term for AQA GCSE History, used in America: Expansion and Consolidation (1840–1895).
The 19th-century term for the Great Plains, based on the belief that the region was an uninhabitable wasteland unfit for traditional European farming.
Great American Desert appears in AQA GCSE History revision content for Period Studies, especially America: Expansion and Consolidation (1840–1895) and Geography of North America.
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