Unit 3 (Lesson 1) Settling the West Quiz

_______________________ faced challenges such as bad weather, attacks from Native Americans, angry farmers, and deep rivers.

• Cowboys on cattle drives

• Homesteaders

• Gold Miners

• Sooners

A _____________________ was a person who claimed land in the Great Plains.

• Cattle Driver

• Homesteader

• Exoduster

• Transcontinental conductor

A long journey to guide animals from one place to another was called a ___________.

• exoduster

• transcontinental railroad

• homestead ride

• poverty

• cattle drive

Identify the major challenge during the building of the Central Pacific Railroad.

• crossing the Rio Grande

• tunneling through mountains

• going around the Grand Canyon

• passing through flooded prairie lands

A __________________ is a system of transportation that goes from one side of the country to the other.

• cattle drive

• homestead

• transcontinental railroad

• exodust

People who journeyed to Kansas for freedom called themselves ________________.

• Exodusters

• Transcontinental Conductors

• Homesteaders

• Poverished

• Cattle Drivers

______________ means having no money, being poor.

• cattle drive

• poverty

• homesteader

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Exodust

___________________ grew as mineral deposits were discovered and people flocked to the West.

• The Chisholm Trail

• The frontier

• Ghost Towns

• Boomtowns

Deserted towns that were left after mineral deposits dried up and miners moved away were called

• boomtowns

• ghost towns

• homesteads

• prairies

________________________________ is the idea that Americans should rule from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

• Frontierism

• Monopoly

• Manifest Destiny

• Patriotism