Westward Expansion

Railroad from Nebraska going West

• Union Pacific
• Central Pacific
• Transcontinental
• Amtrak

Railroad from California going East

• Union Pacific
• Central Pacific
• Transcontinental
• Amtrak

A railroad that goes from coast to coast

• Union Pacific
• Central Pacific
• Transcontinental
• Amtrak

Meeting point in Utah for both railroads

• Oklahoma
• Promontory Point
• Comstock
• San Francisco

Blacks who moved West for land and opportunity

• Freedmen
• Exodusters
• Migrators
• Immigrants

Invention that made digging the ground easier

• Iron Plow
• Steel Plow
• Windmill
• Barbed wire

Someone who takes the law into his own hands

• Prospector
• 49er
• Vigilante
• Exoduster

Someone who mines for gold and minerals

• Prospector
• Freedman
• Vigilante
• Exoduster

They made the MOST money out of everybody

• Prospector
• Freedman
• Mining companies
• Exoduster

Biggest deposit of Silver was called?

• Comstock Lode
• Homestead Act
• Ghost Town
• Subsidies