Westward Expansion

What best describes a major challenge faced by the railroad builders on the Great Plains?

• beautiful weather

• conflict with Chinese Immigrants

• buffalo

• harsh weather

Which innovation allowed people to travel across the country in just 10 days? (completed in 1869)

• The Stagecoach

• The Pony Express

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• Morse Code

Why did many Exodusters move west?

• European immigrants forced them from their homes in the east

• They wanted to hunt Buffalo

• African Americans faced discrimination in the south

• They were seeking religious freedom

Which of the following is NOT an economic reason people moved out west?

• farming and ranching

• factory work

• fur trading and mining

• no restrictions on land

The Transcontinental Railroad positively impacted the development of the west by fostering

• gold and silver

• trade and economic growth

• pollution and waste

• discrimination and prejudice

The Transcontinental Railroad transported products from farms in the ________ to the markets in the ________.

• North, South

• East, West

• South, North

• West, East

What new technology was used to bust through the hard packed sod of the Great Plains?

• Barbed wire

• Steal plow

• Mechanical reaper

• Windmill

Land set aside by the government for Native Americans

• Reservation

• Severalty

• Plot

• Cattle Drive

African American pioneers

• Exodusters

• Carpetbaggers

• Relocation

• Scalawags

Areas where population rapidly in the west because of new settlers

• Homesteaders

• Exodusters

• Boomtown

• Ghost Town