Westward Expansion Vocabulary

What is the Law that gave pioneers 160 acres of land to live on and farm for 5 years?

• Homesteaders
• Gold Rush
• Levi Strauss
• Homestead Act

What was the sudden movement of people to an area where gold is found?

• A reservation
• The Gold Rush
• A Pony Express
• A pioneer

What is a settler who moves from one place to another?

• A reservation
• An entrepreneur
• A Pioneer
• A sodbuster

Who invented the blue jeans?

• Chief Joseph
• Levi Strauss
• Samuel Morse

What was the service in 1860 that used riders on horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California?

• Pony Express
• Cattle Drive
• Telegraph
• Transcontinental Railroad

What was a device that sent messages through wires using electricity?

• The Pony Express
• The telegraph
• Morse Code

What was land that was set aside by the government for Native Americans?

• Cattle drive
• Reservation
• Homesteaders
• Gold Rush

What was the railroad that crosses a continent called?

• The reservation
• The railroad drive
• The homesteaders railroad
• The Transcontinental Railroad

How did the cowboys move large heard of cattle from Texas to the East?

• By the Transcontinental Railroad
• By  the Pony Express
• By a Cattle Drive

What was the name of the African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War?

• The Reservationists
• The Exodusters
• The Sodbusters
• The Pioneers