Westward Expansion practice 2022

What geographical obstacles did pioneers face while moving west?

• Mountain ranges, rivers, and deserts  
• Sickness or disease 
• Fighting with Native Americans 
• Bad weather or storms

What invention changed farming and cattle drives during Westward Expansion?

• Steel plow
• Windmills
• Mechanical reaper
• Barbed wire

What two ethnic groups helped to build the transcontinental railroad?

• Mexican Americans and Native Americans
• Irish immigrants and Chinese immigrants
• African Americans and European immigrants
• Scottish immigrants and Japanese immigrants 

The Battle of Wounded Knee...

• was the first major battle of the west
• was also known as Custer's Last Stand
• was the last major battle of the west
• none of the above

assimilation means...

• to become a part of a different culture
• to forget your name
• to leave your home
• to ignore another culture

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 

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..

What did many homesteaders live in?

• wooden houses
• sod houses
• farm houses
• apartments