Westward Expansion Test Review

What is the best title for this list?

-Opportunities to own land

-New opportunities for former slaves

• -Advances in technology, including the Transcontinental Railroad

• Provided new adventures

• Reasons for the transatlantic railroad

• Reasons for the Civil War

• Reasons for buying the Louisiana Territory

• Reasons for westward expansion

What animal did Native Americans follow and most depend on for so many things?

• elk

• deer

• buffalo

• bear

Which three are adaptations to life in the West?

• Sod houses

• Dry Farming

• Raising Beef

• Wooden Houses

• Growing Trees

After the Gold Rush of 1849, people dreamed of a faster, cheaper, and safer way to travel west. What new technology of the 1800's made this dream a reality?

• Stagecoach

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Pony Express

• Wagon trains

When this was found in the Black Hills of South Dakota more treaties were broken as Native Americans were again forced from their land.

• Gold

• Diamonds

• Coal

• Iron ore

When land out west was needed for ____________, the United States government took it from the Native Americans.

• Army training camps

• railroads

• hospitals

• the Freedmen's Bureau

Because there were so few trees on the Great Plains, many frontier families built _________________.

• longhouses

• sod houses

• cabins

• teepees

Because of new technologies, people saw the Great Plains not as a "treeless wasteland" but as _______________.

• a vast area to be settled

• land for Native American reservations

• an area to relocate all new immigrants

• the site for a new national park

Which immigrants were used as workers on the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Japanese and Norwegian

• Siamese and French

• Chinese and Irish

• Korean and Russian

Many former enslaved African Americans moved west because of a desire for ________________.

• a new beginning

• better weather

• more land

• urban life