Westward Expansion

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny 
• Monroe Doctrine 
• Great Awakening 
• Louisiana Purchase

The ______________________________ company began building the railroad in Nebraska.

• Union Pacific

• Central Pacific

The __________________________ company began building the railroad in California.

• Central Pacific

• Union Pacific

The __________________________ company began building the railroad in California.

• Central Pacific

• Union Pacific

TRUE or FALSE: The journey was long, but easy for the pioneers moving West.

• True

• False

|A law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for $10

• homesteaders

• drought

• Homestead Act

• Proclamation

Where did the U.S. government want the Plains Indians to move?

• Homestead

• Reservation

• Mexico

• Canada

What is a homestead?

• It is a settler's home and land.

• It is a soldier's home and land.

• It is the Native Americans home and land.

• It is a Confederate's home and land.

What was the Homestead Act?

• U.S. sold adults 160 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling five years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 160 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling fifteen years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 200 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling five years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 200 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling fifteen years, it was theirs.

Where had many immigrants come from that settled in the Great Plains?

• Europe

• Asia

• South America

• Africa