Westward Expansion

What did the Homestead Act of 1861 allow white 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 animal was essential to the Native American's way of life?

• Rhinoceros

• Dogs

• Buffalo

• Horses

What were Boom Towns?

• Towns that were developed when gold and silver was found in a particular place. 
• Towns that were abandoned after the gold and silver mines were depleted.
• Towns where dynamite was found
• Towns where loud sounds were often heard.

Who cooperated to develop the cattle industry?

• Ranchers and cowboys

• Mexican Americans and Irish Americans

• Farmers and Townspeople

• Native Americans and pioneers

What invention changed farming AND cattle drives during Westward Expansion?

• Steel plow

• Windmills

• Mechanical reaper

• Barbed wire

What immigrant groups helped to build the transcontinental railroad?

• Native Americans & Canadian immigrants

• Irish, Chinese & Mexican immigrants

• African Americans & European immigrants

• Scottish immigrants & Japanese immigrants

The belief that the U.S. was meant to control land from the Atlantic to the Pacific is known as:

• the Monroe Doctrine
• The Louisiana Purchase
• Manifest Destiny
• The Jackson Action

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What impact did the Transcontinental Railroad have on Native Americans?

• the railroads helped the Native Americans move east

• Native Americans got jobs on the railroads

• the railroads limited their land and decreased their food supply and resources

• the railroads increased the amount of land the Native Americans had

How did the development of the railroad impact the buffalo population?

• the amount of buffalo did not change

• the amount of buffalo decreased

• the amount of buffalo increased

• buffalo migrated east

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

• mountains
• crossing rivers
• the great plains
• all of the above