Western Expansion

Western Expansion

8th Grade

17 Qs

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Western Expansion

Western Expansion

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The idea of manifest destiny was used to

segregate schools

repeal the Homestead Act

support westward expansion

end slavery in the west

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which group of people settled in the Rocky Mountains?

Sod busters

Prospectors

Cowboys

Homesteaders

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Who followed the miners?

prospectors

homesteaders

Native Americans

merchants

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Boomtowns helped to settle the frontier by

providing an unlimited amount of gold

attracting miners westward

providing coal for the railroads

giving farmers land

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the late 1840's many people moved to California to

build sod houses

look for gold

fight native americans

trade with Europe

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

How did the government encourage the railroad companies to build?

giving land grants and money

signing the Homestead Act

annexing Alaska

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

How did the transcontinental railroad impact the US?

it destroyed the Native American's way of life

settlement of the frontier increased

trade around the nation expands

all of the above

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