Westward Expansion

What animal were Plains Indians most reliant on

• Cows
• Buffalo
• Sheep
• Horses

What was a major benefit of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Congress gave loans to railroad companies
• Farmers had lower railroad rates
• Supplies and people were moved quickly and cheaply
• It cost a lot of money

Sod Houses

• A sled pulled by a dog or a horse
• A settlement developed at the end of a cattle drive
• A house build of soil and grass roots
• A tent made of stretched buffalo over poles

What is a boomtown?

• A town with loud music
• A town that formed due to the gold rush
• A large town
• An abandoned town

A railroad that connected the East to the West

• Trans-Siberian railroad

• Union Pacific railroad

• transcontinental railroad

African Americans who made a mass exodus, or departure, from the South

• sodbusters

• Exodusters

• Populist Party

Method of farming that shifted focus away from water-dependent crops

• deflation

• dry farming

• Ghost Dance

This act gave railroad companies loans and land grants to pay for the construction of a transcontinental railroad:

• Morrill Act

• Dawes Act

• Pacific Railway Act

The open range ended with which invention?

• the plow

• the cotton gin

• the mechanical harvester

• the barbed wire

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the transcontinental railroad?

• population growth

• increased economic growth

• allowed shipping of raw goods from the West to the East

• decreased economic growth