Westward Expansion Activator 2

Label

a

b

Central Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad

Silver Comet Railroad

Label the Immigrants that worked opposite sides of the Transcontinental Railroad.

a

b

Irish and German Immigrants

Chinese Immigrants

Russian Immigrants

Why did the population of California grow so quickly?

• Gold was discovered in California

• Gold was discovered in Georgia.

• People were scared of the Civil War

• Nobody ever lived in California

The ​ (a)   offered (b)   to settlers.

• free land
• Homestead Act of 1862
• The Constitution
• food and clothing

This is the belief that the U.S. should continue to expand across the continent.

• abolitionism

• Manifest Destiny

• Sectionalism