D1:Unit 1-Day 1 Westward Expansion

​A Quick History Basics Review... Time Period Terms you need to know

Multiple Choice

What is a CENTURY

• 10 years

• 100 years

• 1000 years

• 12 months

Multiple Choice

What is a DECADE?

• 10 years

• 100 years

• 1000 years

• 12 months

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best example of "20th Century"

• 1900-1999

• 1800-1899

• 2000-2099

• 1990-1999

Multiple Select

Ms. Raines has experienced -- mark all you think apply

• 5 Decades

• 2 Centuries

• 2 Millinia (1000 years)

• Half a Century

Ms. Raines has lived:

• ​For 5 decades: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s (plus 3 years of the 2020s)

• The end of one Century (1900s) and beginning of another (2000s)

• The end of one Millinia (1000s) and the beginning of another (2000s)

Multiple Choice

When settlers refered to "Moving West" they were moving west of what boundary?

• Mississippi River

• Appalachian Mountains

• Rocky Mountains

• Great Lakes

​The Great Plains: Montana,
North and South Dakota,
Nebraska, Kansas and parts
of: Wyoming, Colorado,
Texas, and Oklahoma

Multiple Choice

The belief that the USA should extend from East Coast to West Coast is known as

• Manifest Destiny

• Expansionism

• Colonialism

• Imperialism

Drag and Drop

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factor is something that encourages people to move AWAY from an area, while a ​

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​ factor is something that encourages people to move TO a certain area.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

Push

PULL

Multiple Choice

Which government legislation made it possible to get land cheap out west?

• Indian Removal Act

• Homestead Act

• Social Security Act

• Voting Rights Act

​YOU WILL ANSWER ON THE NEXT SLIDE!

Multiple Choice

Why did people become Exodusters?

• to escape discrimination in the South

• to find jobs in the North

• to avoid drought in the East

• to gain religious freedom in the West

Time Zones:

• ​Before the adoption of four standard time zones for the continental United States, many towns and cities set their clocks to noon when the sun passed their local meridian, resulting in more than 144 various "local" times across the USA.

• Bad for the Railroads: Due to this lack of time standardization, schedules on the same tracks often could not be coordinated, resulting in collisions

• The major railroad companies as a result began to operate on a coordinated system of four time zones starting in 1883 which led to the creation of the 4 continental time zones we know today

Multiple Choice

What are the 4 time zones?

• North, South, East and West

• Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night

• Sunrise, Noon, Sunset and Midnight

• East, Central, Mountain and Pacific

​This made it faster and more efficient to ship goods like cattle, wheat and etc to the markets back East for sale.

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​YOU WILL ANSWER ON THE NEXT SLIDE!

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• B

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• D