Westward Expansion

A strong, sudden attraction of thousands of people to an area in search of gold, especially in 1849 in California.

• Pioneer

• Gold Rush

• Homestead Act

• Tepee

A railroad that crosses or spans an entire continent.

• Subway

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Union Pacific

• Central Pacific

Check all that apply.

What were the MAIN environments going west?

• Mountains

• Rivers

• Oceans

• Grasslands (The Plains)

Railroad company that built going east from Sacramento, California.

• Central Pacific

• Union Pacific

Railroad company built going west from Omaha, Nebraska.

• Central Pacific

• Union Pacific

Date the Transcontinental Railroad was completed.

• October 27, 1892

• September 23, 1982

• December 20, 1954

• May 10, 1869

Mostly ____ immigrants built on the Central Pacific Railroad.

• Chinese

• Irish

• American

Everyone who went west looking for gold got rich!

• True

• False

Law passes in 1862, in which the US government promised settlers 160 acres of land in the west.

• Indian Removal Act

• Homestead Act

• Immigration Act

• Gold Rush Act

A long period without rain.

• Summer

• Dry Farming

• Drought

• Sodbuster