Westward Expansion

Which is not a reason for Westward Expansion?

• Gold
• Railroads
• War
• Land

What was discovered in California in 1849?

• Ores
• Gold and Silver
• Gold and Copper
• Copper

An undeveloped area of land is a

• Reservations
• Manifest Destiny
• Frontier
• Great Plains

Belief that Americans had the right to expand over the whole continent

• Missouri Compromise
• Monroe Doctrine
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Manifest Destiny

One reason people moved to California

• Easier life
• Too crowded in the east
• Manifest Destiny
• Gold

What problem faced by the Central Pacific Railroad Company is shown in the image above?

• Buffalo caused trains to derail.
• Steep slopes of the Sierra Nevada caused a need to dig tunnels
• Natives were constantly fighting workers on their land.
• Tracks had to be built across the Great Plains.

Doubled the size of the United States

• Missouri Compromise
• Northwest Ordinance
• Louisiana Purchase
• Oregon Trail

When gold was found in the West these towns popped up

• Ghosttowns
• Poptowns
• Boomtowns
• Minertowns

What effect did building the railroad have on the Native Americans of the Great Plains?

• Americans took their land building railroads on the Plains.
• Buffalo- their main food, clothing, and shelter, were killed
• Put on reservations changed, their traditional way of life.
• All of the Above

Which groups of immigrants were used to build the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Irish immigrants
• Irish and Chinese Immigrants
• Chinese Immigrants
• Chinese and Japanese Immigrants