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Westward Expansion Quiz

Authored by Laura Jameson

Social Studies

5th Grade

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Westward Expansion Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The destruction of this animal impacted the way of life for Native Americans

Horse

Buffalo

Chicken

Cattle

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What natural resource bought many prospectors to the west in 1849?

Steel

Cotton

Wheat

Gold

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What should the following list be labeled?

  • Attracting new immigrants to the country
  • Bringing goods to market
  • Faster transportation across the country
  • Destruction of the buffalo
  • Digging tunnels through mountains
  • Causing pollution from factories to increase

Effects on the Transcontinental Railroad

The Impact of Chinese Immigrants in the West

Obstacles facing Westward Expansion

Why Pioneers Preferred the Transcontinental Railroad over Wagons

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which had a NEGATIVE impact on the Transcontinental Railroad?

Waste throw in the streets

The coal polluted the air

It offered another way of travel

Crops could be transported across the country

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The following list describes which group of people?

Many were Irish Built the Transcontinental Railroad from east to west Had communist events like barn-raisings

African Americans

Mexican Americans

European Immigrants

Chinese Americans

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How were Chinese immigrants discriminated against?

They were placed on reservations

They were given poor soil to farm on

They were paid less money than Caucasian workers

They were able to get high paying jobs

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the main cause of conflict between the settlers and the Native Americans?

Both wanted gold

Land ownership

Cattle drives

None of the above

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