Westward Expansion and the Transcontinental Railroad

What invention helped prevent cattle from escaping?

• bean picker
• barbed wire
• steel plow
• windmills 

What act allowed the national government to make deals with the Native Americans to exchange their land?

• Indian Removal Act
• Civillization ACt 
• Manifest Destiny Act
• Indian Territory Act

The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand across the North American contitent was known as

• The Great Expansion
• Manifest Destiny
• Oregon Fever
• The Monroe Doctrine

I just moved to America in search of gold. Instead, I took a job working on the Transcontinental Railroad. I am paid less than white workers, even though I am a hard worker.

• African American
• European Immigrant
• Mexican American
• Asian Immigrant

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers
• Increased trade between the east and west and boosted the economy
• Polluted the air and the natural environment
• All of the above

How were the Native Americans economically affected by displacement?

• They profited from gold found on their reservations

• Their families were separated from their children

• They lived comfortably on reservations

• Many suffered from poverty and starvation

What impact did the railroads have on Native Americans?

• the railroads helped the Native Americans move east

• Native Americans got jobs on the railroads

• the railroads limited their land and decreased their food supply and resources

• the railroads increased the amount of land the Native Americans had

How did the development of the railroad impact the bison population?

• the amount of bison did not change
• the amount of bison decreased
• the amount of bison increased
• bison migrated east

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

• mountains
• crossing rivers
• the great plains
• 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