Westward Expansion: Railroads, Miners, and Ranchers

The belief that the United States should keep expanding west, to the Pacific Ocean

• Cattle Drives

• Gold Rush

• Manifest Destiny

• Pioneers

A railroad that stretched across the United States

• Manifest Destiny

• Cattle Drive

• Pioneers

• Transcontinental Railroad

An event where gold is found in an area, which causes people to hurry to that area.

• Cattle Drive

• Gold Rush

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Pioneers

The process by which cowboys guided herds of cattle (cows) along dusty trails to be sold

• Gold Rush

• Cattle Drive

• Pioneer

• Manifest Destiny

Early settlers of an area, such as the American West

• Cattle Drives

• Gold Rush

• Pioneers

• Railroad

While the eastern cities were crowded, the Western United States...

• was also crowded and full of big cities.

• impossible to reach and barely settled by people.

• offered people plenty of space to live and work.

• was only reachable by ocean.

Pioneers, or early settlers to the American West included which of the following people?

• Farmers

• Miners

• Ranchers

• All of the above

On May 10, 1869, two railroad lines, one from the east and one from the west, met at Promontory Point, Utah. This was the completion of the ______________________.

• Southern U.S. Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Kansas Pacific Railroad

• California Railroad

Which of the following caused people to move to the American West?

• Gold found in New York in 1849

• Land that was good for raising cattle

• Factory jobs in eastern cities

• Large mountains to travel over

What was one way that the growing railroad changed life across America?

• It allowed factory products to be shipped back to the east coast

• It allowed people to find gold on the east coast.

• It allowed raw materials from the West to be shipped quickly.

• It caused people to move to China after they reached California.