Chapter 10

What is another name for "pioneers"?

• Settlers
• Immigrants
• Natives
• Citizens

The belief that the U.S. should keep expanding west to the Pacific Ocean.

• Expansion
• Manifest Destiny
• Exploration
• Manifest Deliverance

Many of the people that worked on the transcontinental railroad were

• Canadian
• Native American
• Chinese
• French

Which direction did people head after the California Gold Rush happened?

• North
• South
• East
• West

________ that had been raised in the West were often shipped to big cities and places along the coast.

• Sheep
• Cattle
• Lambs
• Oxen

This law gave settlers 160 acres of land for $____.

• Homestead Act; $20
• Homestead Act; $18
• New Deal; $20
• New Deal $25

The government supported ____________ to encourage settlers to farm the western land.

• homesteading
• living
• homeplanting
• moving

This helped farmers by allowing them to harvest crops much faster.

• The mechanical reaper
• The combine
• The tractor
• The wheelbarrow

Native Americans of the Great Plains depending on what animal for food, clothing, and shelter?

• Cattle
• Buffalo
• Groundhog
• Sheep

This law required Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to move.

• The Indian Transportation Act
• The Indian Moving Act
• The Indian Removal Act
• The Mississippi River Act