Tensions in the West Review

What law gave land away to settlers in the West?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Homestead Act
• Pacific Railway Act
• Dawes Act

Which group was most responsible for building the Transcontinental Railroad?

• former slaves
• sharecroppers
• Chinese and Irish Immigrants
• German Immigrants

Thousands of workers from this country worked to build the transcontinental railroad.

• China
• Italy
• Mexico
• Germany

How did the expansion of railroads affect the settlement of the West?

• it encouraged people to remain in the East
• it make it possible for farmers and ranchers to send their produce back to larger markets in the East
• it ultimately had no real effect on settlement
• it allowed Native Americans to keep their homeland

Why were railroads so important during this time?

• they moved goods more quickly and less expensively over greater distances
• they were fun to ride on to go visit family in other states
• people could ride on railroads to get to their jobs in another city

This group of people herded cattle to railroad towns (cow towns).

• Cowboys
• Miners
• Homesteaders
• Railroad Workers

What natural resource was discovered in the Black Hills (present-day South Dakota) in 1876?

• oil
• silver
• iron ore
• gold

Where did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads meet to complete the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Nebraska
• Utah
• California
• Wyoming

What did miners dream of doing?

• owning farmland
• religious freedom
• striking it rich
• surviving the winter

Fast growing settlements that sprung up around mines were known as:

• boomtowns
• tenements
• suburbs
• megacities