Chapter 10-Westward Expansion

Many new inventions were created to help farmers keep their land, animals and crops safe. Which of the following was NOT an invention that helped farms during the mid 1800s?

• reaper

• barb wire fence

• iron plow

• tractor

President Abraham Lincoln signed the __________________________ of 1862. Under this law, new settlers received 160 acres of land for a small fee.

• sodbuster

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcontinental Railroad

• homestead act

• drought

Many of these settlers believed in the idea of _________________________. According to this idea, the United States should keep expanding wes across the continent.

• pioneers

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcontinental Railroad

• gold rush

• raw materials

The __________ was created to help ships sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast much faster.

• Panama Canal

• Pacific Canal

• Truman Canal

• Mississippi River

These _______________, or early settlers, included farmers, miners, ranches, and immigrants.

• pioneers

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcontinental Railroad

• gold rush

• soldiers

Americans thought Alaska was a better addition to the US, when what was discovered in the Klondike River?

• diamonds

• copper

• gold

• silver

The settlers on the prairie were called _________________because they had to cut through the thickly rooted grass, or sod, to build their homes and plant crops.

• sodbusters

• reservations

• dry farmers

• irrigations

• droughts

The American planters pushed for the ________, or addition of Hawaii to the United States.

• Monroe Doctrine

• isthmus

• raw materials

• annex

• droughts

Many people started moving ______ because it was full of new opportunities-land for crops and cattle, mineral deposits of gold and silver.

• north

• east

• south

• west

In 1876, Colonel George Custer and his army fought a tribe of American Indians at Little Big Horn. What is the name of the Sioux Chief that led the fight?

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

• Chief Joseph