Westward Expansion I

Whose labor built most of the transcontinental railroad?

• Highly paid American workers

• Chinese and Irish immigrants

• African American slaves

• Native Americans

The USA started on the Atlantic coast, and spread ____ to cover the continent.

• north

• south

• east

• west

Before the transcontinental railroad, getting across the country took about ___. It was expensive and dangerous.

• 1 month

• 3 months

• 6 months

• 1 year

Critically, the transcontinental railroad connected ___ to ___.

• Pacific Ocean to Indian Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico to Great Lakes

• Mississippi River to Rocky Mountains

Why was the transcontinental railroad so important to the American economy?

• It provided jobs for local farmers

• It connected the east to the west for transportation and trade

• It was the first railroad in the world

• It reduced the need for waterways

Our Essential Question for this unit is ___.

• How did the USA become a world power?

• What caused the Civil War?

• How did the USA gain independence?

• What is the American Dream?

The most important resource for Native Americans at the time was the ___.

• Horse

• Bison/buffalo

• Gold

• Cotton

The belief that God gave American Christians the right to all the land across North America is known as ___.

• American Exceptionalism

• Manifest Destiny

• Divine Right

• Monroe Doctrine

When a country spreads out and grows across more land, it is called ___.

• Colonization

• Expansion

• Migration

• Urbanization

A law that gave free western land to anyone who built a home and farmed there is known as the ___.

• Land Grant Act

• Homestead Act

• Western Settlement Act

• Agricultural Act