Westward Expansion

How did the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad affect the United States in the late 1800s?

• It reduced economic hardships for many American Indian tribes.

• It allowed for the construction of textile mills across the West.

• It decreased the need for the country to be reunified.

• It encouraged people to establish settlements beyond the western frontier.

The process described above led to -

• peaceful resolution of territorial disputes with American Indians.

• the establishment of agricultural communities on the American frontier.

• federal regulation of agriculture.

• a decline in immigration in urban areas.

Which factor contributed to the settling of the American West by immigrants arriving from places such as China, Ireland, and Scandinavia?

• Building of the Transcontinental Railroad

• Development of cattle drive trails out of Texas

• Invention of the commercial electric telegraph

• Establishment of a system of Indian reservations

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What is the best title for this list?

• How Sharecroppers lived in the Deep South

• Ways Migrant Workers Lived in the Southwest

• How Minors took advantage of Gold Rush Opportunities

• Ways settlers adapted to conditions on the Great Plains

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What was the primary reason the Exodusters left the south?

• To escape drought conditions

• To reunite with family members

• To find employment in U.S. wartime industries

• To escape oppression and discrimination

Match the following

• The Frontier, West, Great Plains

• Massive rush of people to Alaska in hopes of striking in rich

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Cheap government land that accelerated westward expansion

• Klondike Gold Rush

• Connected the east coast and west coast

• Homestead Act 1862

• Areas not settled by technological advances and home to Native Americans

• Exodusters

• First migration of former African American slaves from the south to the west to escape racial oppression

Where did people most likely settle during the Homestead Act of 1862

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