Westward Expansion

What geographical obstacles did pioneers face while moving west?

• Mountain ranges, rivers, and deserts  
• Sickness or disease 
• Fighting with Native Americans 
• Bad weather or storms

How did most people travel to the west?

• Boat
• Horseback
• Car
• Covered Wagon

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What major river systems had to be crossed in order to move west? 

• Snake River, Mississippi River, Columbia River, Missouri River
• Nile River
• Amazon River
• Rio Grande

What did the Homestead Act of 1861 allow settlers to do?

• Go to war with Native Americans
• Own the land that they settled on after 5 years
• Establish the sharecropping system
• Make peace with the Native Americans

What was the name of the group of African Americans that settled in Nicodemus, Kansas? 

• Missionaries
• Carpetbaggers
• Scalawags
• Exodusters

What two ethnic groups helped to build the transcontinental railroad?

• Mexican Americans and Native Americans
• Irish immigrants and Chinese immigrants
• African Americans and European immigrants
• Scottish immigrants and Japanese immigrants 

Why were the people that moved to California for the gold rush called "forty niners"?

• There were 49 hundred of them
• Most of them moved there in 1849
• They traveled 49 miles to get to California

A town whose population grows very quickly is called a ____________.

• Pop town
• Fast  town
• Boomtown

Where did the Oregon Trail begin?

• Independence, Missouri 
• Oregon City, Oregon
• Rocky Mountains 

Where does the Oregon Trail end?

• Independence, Missouri
• Oregon City, Oregon
• Rocky Mountains