SS 1. Movement - Western Expansion

A person who starts a business hoping to make a profit

• entrepreneur
• forty-niner
• prospector
• sodbuster

A trainroute across the United States completed in 1869

• intercontinental railroad
• NorthAmerican railroad
• transcontinental railroad
• US railroad

A region in which onestandard of time is used

• day division
• sunlight section
• time share
• time zone

The man who created the first pair of jeans

• Buffalo Bill
• Calvin Klein
• Levi Straus
• Joseph Wrangler

The place where the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad met when completed

• Omaha
• Promontory Summit
• Salt Lake City
• Sacramento

The Chinese were often paid lower wages for their work on the railroad.  What can you infer? 

• The Chinese asked to be paid less.
• The quality of the work done by the Chinese was inferior. 
• The Chinese did not work as fast as the European immigrants.
• Chinese were discriminated against because of their culture. 

A law that offered loans and land to companies that would build the transcontinental railroad

• American Amtrak Act
• Homestead Act
• Pacific Railroad Act
• Transportation Act of 1860

A person who is an early settler of a region

• exoduster
• newbie
• pioneer
• sodbuster

A law that gave farmland to any adult male or widow who agreed to work it for five years.

• Farm Act of 1865
• Homestead Act
• Pioneer Act
• Resettlement Act

Person who invented the first steel plow

• J.D. Adams
• Allis Chalmers
• John Deere
• Paul Hargette