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

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

Which three are adaptations to life in the West?

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?

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

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

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

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

Which immigrants were used as workers on the Transcontinental Railroad?

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