Geographic Human Factors of Civil War

The first roads and rail lines in the US were in the

• West

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Northeast

The belief that it was Americans' right to control all of the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean was called

• Union Pacific

• Central Pacific

• Manifest Destiny

• Promotory Summit

The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged Americans to

• move out west

• build the railroad

• ration their food

• fight in the Civil War

The Central Pacific was known for hiring many immigrants from

• China

• Japan

• Vietnam

• Cambodia

This invention led the closure of the open range and many ranches throughout Texas.

• Barbed Wire

• Clothes line

• Fencing

What helped cities boom in the late 1800s?

• Cities grew with railroad expansion
• American Indians removed to reservations
• Cotton became the number one industry in Texas
• Population in Texas dropped to the loud noise of the train

What new technology was fast and carried a lot of items at once?

• railroad

• cattle drives

• sharecropping

• fisheries

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• To make China more powerful.

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

• To make Native Americans move off their land.

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

The railroad companies hired workers from other countries because _______________________.

• they didn't have enough money.

• many Americans were still fighting in the Civil War.

• the immigrants wanted something fun to do.

• they could make the tools needed for the job.

What does transcontinental mean?

• to travel across a continent

• to travel from one continent to another continent

• to travel north and south

• to travel to transport goods