The West

Why did settlers move to the west?

• growth of railroads
• factories
• Wars
• cash crops

How did the government encourage the building of the railroad?

• subsidies or land grants

• treaties

• allowing new states to enter the union

• money

Which group built the Central Pacific Railroad?

• Chinese
• Irish
• Native Americans
• Homesteaders

Why did miners move to Nevada?

• Pikes Peak
• Sutter's Mill
• Comstock Lode
• 49ers

What happened to a mining area when the gold and silver was gone?

• It became a boomtown
• It became a ghost town
• Cow towns arrived
• Native Americans moved in

How were Native Americans affected by the settlement of the west?

• forced to Reservations

• Buffalo almost became extinct

• open range was destroyed

• all of the above

What was the result of the disappearance of the buffalo?

• forced Native Americans onto reservations
• forced Native Americans to move to Canada
• Native Americans moved to cities to work in factories
• it did not affect Native Americans

Why did the Indian wars occur between the US government and the Native Americans?

• the search for silver in California
• conflict between the colonies and Great Britain
• movement of settlers on the great plains
• slavery

What happened when the the gold dried up in an area?

• boomtowns became ghostowns
• settlers started farms
• Cattle drives

Which group was negatively affected by the transcontinental railroad?

• miners
• homesteaders
• Native Americans
• Chinese