Westward Expansion #2 Unit: 4

Westward Expansion #2

Unit: 4 Reasons for the increase in westward expansion

4. People moved west for adventure.

This was mostly young men.

Faces of Adventure

Adventure

To engage in hazardous and exciting activity, especially the exploration of unknown territory.

Multiple Select

Select all of the reasons why westward expansion increased after the Civil War.

• Homestead Act

• Freedom

• Gold Rush

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Adventure

Multiple Select

Select all the items/descriptions that relate to the Transcontinental Railroad.

• Railroad that connected the east coast to the west coast

• It was built with Chinese and Irish Immigrants

• it was a competition between the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad companies

• The Central Pacific Railroad moved at a slower pace because they had to tunnel through mountains

• A golden spike and special wood was used in a formal ceremony when the two sides met

Fill in the Blanks

The ? gave 160 acres to people willing to move west and live on the land for 5 years.

Multiple Choice

What group of people have no homes, education, money, jobs after the Civil War?

• Irish immigrants

• Native Americans

• African Americans

• Chinese immigrants

Multiple Choice

About how many former enslave African Americans were in the South after the Civil War?

• 3 million

• 6 million

• 33 million

• 4 million

Multiple Select

Select all the reasons for the increase in westward expansion after the Civil War.

• Depression

• Homestead Act

• Adventure

• Gold

• Transcontinental Railroad

Multiple Choice

What was the Homestead Act?

• !60 acres of land was given to people who would stay on the land for 5 years

• It paid the expenses tor traveling to the west

• It allowed people to settle California and Mexico

• It was government money paid to all veterans who fought in the Civil War

5. Many African Americans moved west for a new beginning and to excape from the cycle of poverty, white intimidation and violence.