Westward Expansion

What development helped Americans expand westward?

• transcontinental railroad
• automobiles
• industrialization
• Native American expansion

What do you call a town that experiences a sudden growth?

• exoduster
• boom town
• reservation
• vigilante

The ________________ was a law in 1860 that offered acres of land to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for 5 years.

• Dawes Act
• Meeting at Promontory Point
• Homestead Act
• boom town

This was a political party that was formed by farmers who wanted to raise crop prices.

• Vaquero
• Vigilante
• Populist 
• Granger

Which did not happen to Plains Indians as a result of westward expansion? 

• they were put on reservations
• tribes were massacred by the military
• they were forced to sign treaties
• they were given political power

_______________ were African Americans who took advantage of the Homestead Act

• exodusters
• vaqueros
• sodbusters
• grangers

The ___________________ Railroad started in New York and was built by Irish immigrants.

• Transcontinental
• Union
• Pacific
• Pomontory Point

Which of the following DID NOT accelerate Westward Expansion

• Native American tribes
• Homestead Act
• ranching
• mining

__________________ was land set aside for Native Americans.

• sodbuster
• vaquero
• reservation
• granger

Battle of 1876 in which Sioux and Cheyenne tribes killed an entire force of US troops.

• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Meeting at Promontory Point
• Wounded Knee Massacre