Westward Expansion Quiz

New ____________, population growth, and technological advances led to westward migration following the ____________.

• opportunities

• Civil War

• challenges

• Revolutionary War

• industrialization

___________ - The belief that expansion was good for the country and the right of the country.

• Manifest Destiny

• Isolationism

• Imperialism

• Neutrality

Gold Rush _______ - Gold was found in ____________ and people moved West for a desire to strike it rich. These people were called the ____________.

• 1849

• California

• 1850

• forty-niners

• Nevada

The ____________ of 1862--government gave away land to people who were willing to settle the land.

• Homestead Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Morrill Act

• Pacific Railway Act

Given ______ ________ of land.

• 160 acres

• 200 acres

• 100 acres

• 50 acres

__________ Railroad--Railroad lines across the entire country.

• Transcontinental

• western

• Interstate

• eastern

• national

Immigration of workers from _______ who helped build it.

• China

• India

• Mexico

• Germany

Exodusters - The large-scale ___________ out of the South to Kansas came to be known as the "Great Exodus," and those participating in it were called "exodusters."

• migration

• 1879

• immigration

• exodus

• departure

Chances for ____________ --Chance to escape the cycle of poverty and white intimidation and violence.

• opportunity

• wealth

• education

• equality

Barbed Wire-- steel wire with ______ edges or points. Used for fencing.

• twisted

• sharp

• smooth

• dull

• soft