Westward Expansion

Which inventiion made it possible for people and goods to travel across the country in just one week?

• Covered Wagon

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Cars

A ____________ was a town that was built as miners came to look for gold and needed goods and services

• Ghost Town

• Railroad Town

• Boom town

Which group made up the largest part of the Central Pacific's workforce?

• Mexicans

• Chinese

• Irish

Why did people rush to California in 1849?

• for land

• for cattle

• for gold

What was a drive to move cattle to the railroads in Kansas to be shipped East?

• Oregon Trail

• Homestead Act

• Cattle Drive

What was a name given to African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains?

• Nicodemus

• Exoduster

• Homesteader

What was the main purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862?

• settle the West

• sell cattle

• sell steel plows

Which of the following was one of the challenges typically faced by homesteaders?

• expensive land

• fight Native Americans

• harsh weather

Who owned the cattle that were driven across the West to the nearest railroad depot?

• poineers

• cowboys

• ranchers

Which of the following was/were ways technology helped pioneers turn the Great Plains into productive farmland?

• windmills pumped water

• plows cut the soil

• reapers harvested crops

• all of the above