Social Studies: 2. Westward Expansion (L)

A person who starts a business hoping to make a profit

• entrepreneur
• forty-niner
• prospector
• sodbuster

A trainroute across the United States completed in 1869

• intercontinental railroad
• NorthAmerican railroad
• transcontinental railroad
• US railroad

A region in which onestandard of time is used

• day division
• sunlight section
• time share
• time zone

A service that used a relay of riders on horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California.

• Federal  Express
• Pony Express
• United Parcel Service
• Western Union

A cattle trail from San Antonio, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas, that was in use from 1867 to 1886

• Appalachian Trail
• Chisholm Trail
• Oregon Trail
• Santa Fe Trail

The man who created the first pair of jeans

• Buffalo Bill
• Calvin Klein
• Levi Straus
• Joseph Wrangler

The place where the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad met when completed

• Omaha
• Promontory Summit
• Salt Lake City
• Sacramento

The Chinese were often paid lower wages for their work on the railroad.  What can you infer? 

• The Chinese asked to be paid less.
• The quality of the work done by the Chinese was inferior. 
• The Chinese did not work as fast as the European immigrants.
• Chinese were discriminated against because of their culture. 

A law that offered loans and land to companies that would build the transcontinental railroad

• American Amtrak Act
• Homestead Act
• Pacific Railroad Act
• Transportation Act of 1860

A device that sends messages through wire using electricity

• telecaster
• telegraph
• teleporter
• teleprompter