Railroad and Inventions Practice

What is one of the impacts of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Reduced the travel time

• Increased the travel time

• Made it difficult to travel

• Made the economy decrease

What is one of the impacts of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Increased the travel time

• made it quicker to send resources and supplies

• made it slower to send resources and supplies

• made it difficult to travel

What is one of the impacts of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• increased the travel time

• expanded the US economy

• made the US economy shrink

• made it slower to send resources and supplies

True or False: The transcontinental railroad divided Indian lands and caused fighting between the Native Americans and the U.S. military.

• True

• False

True or False: The transcontinental railroad carried hunters who made the bison almost extinct.

• True

• False

True or False: The transcontinental railroad made the Native Americans happy!

• True

• False

Which one is NOT an impact of the telegraph on Westward Expansion?

• provided a way for people to communicate across long distances

• increased trade across the US due to better communication

• helped break up the soil

• provided a way for people to communicate during times of need

Which is NOT an impact of the barbed wire on Westward Expansion?

• interfered with Native American travel across land

• allowed ranchers to keep large herds

• helped grow the economy

• made the economy decrease

Which is NOT an impact of the steel plow on Westward Expansion?

• made it easier to break the soil

• allowed for more food to be produced

• population was not able to grow

• more people moving out West

What is NOT an impact of the cotton gin?

• increased the demand for slaves

• decreased the demand for slaves

• increased the number of plantations

• made it faster and easier to take out the seeds from the cotton