SS Chapter 10

the belief that the United States should keep expanding west

• manifest destiny

• transcontinental railroad

• Gold Rush

a railroad created to stretch across the United States

• manifest destiny

• transcontinental railroad

• gold rush

the period around 1849 when many people moved to California to become rich

• manifest destiny

• transcontinental railroad

• gold rush

What helped transport cattle faster from the great plains in the West to the growing cities of the East in the 1800s?

• cattle drives

• trucks

• planes

• railroads

What was one important thing that transcontinental train travel did to the United States during its early days?

• bring water to farms

• develop the West more quickly

• fuel the gold rush

• help the US sell textiles to other countries

a new settler who received 160 acres of land for $18 and had to build a home in six months on the land

• homesteader

• irrigation

• dry farming

directs water from a source to a place that needs it

• homesteader

• irrigation

• dry farming

method used where moisture is conserved in the soil during a dry season

• homesteader

• irrigation

• dry farming

Which state below was one of the seven western territories that became a state between 1861 and 1907?

• Illinois

• Kansas

• California

• North Carolina

What were settlers on the prairie often called?

• pilgrims

• pioneers

• sodbusters

• miners