Expansion West

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad

• To make China powerful

• To make Native Americans move off their land.

• To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation

• To give immigrants a job, to feel important, and needed in America

The ______ of 1862 gave land to any settlers willing to move west.

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Volstead Act

• Agricultural Freedom Act

Railroad owners wanted more people to settle on the Great Plains because...

• farmers would use the railroads to ship products to markets in the cities
• they needed more people to build railroad tracks
• they needed sharecroppers to farm the land owned by the railroads
• settlers would grow cotton and ship it to the south

Which group of workers filled labor shortages to build the transcontinental railroad before the end of the Civil War?

• Chinese Laborers

• American Indian laborers

• Union soldiers

• enslaved workers

What animal was hunted to near extinction by riflemen in the West?

• Coyotes

• Wolves

• Buffalo

• Bunnies

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
• offered free land to those willing to farm it.
• offered land to gold prospectors.
• promised protection from Native Americans.

Which group of immigrants came to California to help build the railroad and risked death or injury blasting through the mountain?

• Chinese

• Mexicans

• irish

• Whites

What was a negative effect of the railroad boom?

• People and goods could get places faster.

• Many Texas businesses grew.

• Railroad tracks were laid across American Indian lands and railroad companies slaughtered buffalo.

What was built to connect the east coast with the west coast?

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Eire Canal
• Panama Canal
• Southern Railroad