Westward Expansion

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers

• Increased trade between the east and west and boosted the economy

• Polluted the air and the natural environment

• All of the above

I am an Exoduster and I chose to move west in hopes of finally owning land. I was also trying to escape the KKK.

• European Immigrants

• Asian Immigrants

• Mexican Americans

• African Americans

I use to own land in the West. However, after the U.S. won a war against my country in the 1840s people began discriminating against me. As a result, I lost my land.

• Mexican American

• African American

• European Immigrants

• Asian American

I just moved to America in search of gold. Instead, I took a job working on the Transcontinental Railroad. I am paid less than white workers, even though I am a hard worker.

• African American

• European Immigrant

• Mexican American

• Asian Immigrant

The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand across the North American contitent was known as

• The Great Expansion

• Manifest Destiny

• Oregon Fever

• The Monroe Doctrine

What act allowed the national government to make deals with the Native Americans to exchange their land?

• Indian Removal Act

• Civillization ACt 

• Manifest Destiny Act

• Indian Territory Act

Which best describes Manifest Destiny?

• Caused everyone to get along better

• expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific

• Idea started in the 1600s

• The king said that we had to the right to move west

What did the westward expansion offer for former slaves?

• food

• wealth

• land

• a new beginning and freedom

Which of the following is NOT a way the railroad increased agricultural trade?

• Farmers used the railroads to get their crops to market

• Ranchers used the railroads to get their cattle to processing centers

• Native Americans profited from cash crops brought in by the railroads

• Factories in the east profited from cash crops brought in by the railroads

In 1803, President Jefferson bought a huge piece of land west of the Mississippi River from France. How much did the United States pay for it?

• one hundred dollars

• 15 thousand dollars

• 15 million dollars

• no money was exchanged instead they traded gold for the land.