Westward Expansion Continues

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

• San Francisco

• Sutter's Mill

• Promontory Summit

• Houston

Why did the government want the Transcontinental Railroad built?

• To move prisoners west

• To encourage westward expansion

• To defeat Mexico

• To make peace with the Native Americans

The Homestead Act required people to farm on land for _____ years to get _______ acres for free.

• 10 years, 50 acres

• 1 year, 80 acres

• 7 years, 180 acres

• 5 years, 160 acres

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

• cattle drive

• homestead

• transcontinental railroad

• exodust

_______________ the first general migration of African Americans from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas following the Civil War.

• Reformers

• Prospectors

• Sharpshooters

• Exodusters

What act gave 160 acres to any family who would linve on the land and farm it for 5 years?

• The Homestead Promise
• The Homestead Neighborhood
• The Homestead Act of 1862
• The Homestead farmland

Why did settlers move to the Great Plains?

• They were looking for gold.
• They were hoping to farm the rich land found there.
• They liked the towns found there.
• They wanted a factory job there.

What does mechanized mean?

• replaced by labor
• replaced by animals
• replaced by machines
• replaced by workers

What did railroads help create that we still use today?

• Whistle stops

• Time Zones

• Smoking Cars

• Boom towns

What invention DID NOT help farm the Great Plains in the late 1800s?

• Mechanical Reaper

• Grain Drill

• Barbed Wire

• Dynamite