Expansion in the West

Expansion in the West

By Mary Ortaleza

Multiple Choice

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Became a more efficent form of transportation for settlers

• Increase trade between the east and west and boosted the economy

• Polluted the air and natural environment

• All of the above

Open Ended

Explain how this quote can be applied in one's life.

“Those who have a ‘why’ to live can bear with almost any ‘how." - Viktor Frankl

Multiple Choice

The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroad companies met in

• Denver, Colorado

• Salt Lake City, Utah

• Promontory Point, Utah

• Sacramento, California

• environmental destruction

• displaced Native Americans

• ​disrupted natural habitat

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Negative

• faster and safer transportation

• ​connected East & West which made it easier to travel and to ship and sell products

• ​improved communication

Positive

Positive and Negative of Transcontinental Railroad

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Multiple Select

What were some of the reasons why pioneers started to move west? Choose all that apply

• Cheap farmlands

• fine gold and riches

• build new homes

• economic opportunity

Go West, Grow Rich

• Gold was found in 1849 in California. By the 1860s, silver was found in Colorado and copper was found in Arizona. Mining towns such as Denver, Colorado sprang up across the West.

• ​An opportunity to own land drew people to move west of the Mississippi River. The U.S. government offered free or cheap land to homesteaders.

• ​The growing demand for cattle products made cattle ranchers expand farther west to earn larger profits.

• ​The need for more minerals and lumber drove people to the west for mining and logging.

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Multiple Choice

What was the Homestead Act?

• An act that focused on making Native Americans assimilate into white culture.

• It allowed the Transcontinental Railroad to be built.

• passed in 1862 provided 160 acres of land if you lived on the land and farmed it for five years.

Multiple Choice

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• Great Awakening

• Louisiana Purchase

Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.

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