West Expandsion

Buying this land doubled the size of the United States.

• The Louisiana Purchase
• Alaska
• Nebraska-Kansas Territory
• Cuba

These are motivations for pioneers to move West: Cheaper living, land, gold, religious freedom, new opportunities

• True
• False

These are risks of travelers moving West: Severe weather, illness, accidents/damage to wagon, chance of not making a living in the West. 

• True 
• False

The first railroad to cross the United States was the....

• Union Pacific Railroad
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Missouri Railroad
• Transcontinental Railroad

The idea of manifest destiny was used to

• segregate schools

• repeal the Homestead Act

• support westward expansion

• end slavery in the west

Which group of people settled in the Rocky Mountains?

• Sod busters

• Prospectors

• Cowboys

• Homesteaders

Who followed the miners?

• prospectors

• homesteaders

• Native Americans

• merchants

Boomtowns helped to settle the frontier by

• providing an unlimited amount of gold

• attracting miners westward

• providing coal for the railroads

• giving farmers land

In the late 1840's many people moved to California to

• build sod houses

• look for gold

• fight native americans

• trade with Europe

How did the government encourage the railroad companies to build?

• giving land grants and money

• signing the Homestead Act

• annexing Alaska