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Western Expansion

Authored by Michelle Barker

History

5th - 6th Grade

CCSS covered

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Western Expansion
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is Manifest Destiny?

The belief that it was America's destiny to control and civilize all of North America
The belief that their destiny was to manifest
A religious term used to explain how to be saved

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The first railroad to cross the United States was the....

Union Pacific Railroad
Central Pacific Railroad
Missouri Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following BEST explains how railroads stimulated the national economy in the late 1800s?

They increased the number of railroad barons
They allowed a large number of people to enter the United States
They efficiently allowed products to be shipped across the country
They diminished the power of monopolies in the railroad industry

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The pioneers that took advantage of the Homestead Act were called...

homesteaders
ranchers
sodbusters
scalawags

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following inventions brought an end to the open range on the Great Plains?

steel plow
reaper
windmill
barbed wire

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following was the main reason for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800s?

Congress passed a law requiring all public lands to be sold at auction.

Congress passed the Homestead Act and settlers could get free land by living on the land for 5 years.

Speculators bought large parcels of land and built factory towns to attract new immigrants.

Native Americans sold most of their tribal land directly to railroad companies.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Farmers of the Great Plains faced all of the following problems, except

lack of wood

harsh weather

lack of wind for windmills

insects

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