Westward Expansion homework

This act gave any citizen or intended citizen of the United States 160 acres of free land if they cultivated it and lived on it for 5 years. 

• Homestead Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Pacific Railway Act 
• Morrill Act 

This act have federal lands to railroad companies to complete a transcontinental railroad connecting the East and West coast of the United States 

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 
• Pacific Railway Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Homestead Act 

Required Indian to live within clearly defined land zones where they were isolated from everybody else. 

• Bureau of Indian Affairs 
• Missouri Compromise 
• Trail of Tears 
• Reservations 

The Transcontinental Railroad connected the nation and helped to 

• improving ranching conditions, settle the west, caused cities to shrink, discouraged new inventions
• discouraged growth of cities, ranches, and farms in the west
• promoted farming, discouraged the growth of cities, hurt the western economy
• settle the west, cause cities to grow, improve the western economy, and encourage new inventions

What are some CLIMATE issues that Pioneers had to face when moving west?

• Animals

• No food

• Wagon trains

• Droughts, floods, tornadoes, dust storms

Which two groups had a conflict over barbed wire?

• Cowboys and Farmers
• Slaves and Owners
• Native Americans and Farmers
• Railroad workers and Buffalo

Where did the Central Pacific Railroad build?

• Omaha, Nebraska to the West, over the plains
• Sacramento, California to the East, Over the mountains
• Missouri to California
• Over the Mississippi River

Where did the two railroads finally meet?

• Sacramento

• Promontory Summit

• Sierra Nevada

• Washington DC..

The Union Pacific hired what kind of workers?

• Chinese

• Irish

• Native Americans

• African Americans

The Central Pacific hired what kind of workers?

• Chinese

• Irish

• Native Americans

• African Americans