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WorksheetsWestward Expansion: Railroads, Miners, and Ranchers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The belief that the United States should keep expanding west, to the Pacific Ocean
Cattle Drives
Gold Rush
Manifest Destiny
Pioneers
A railroad that stretched across the United States
Manifest Destiny
Cattle Drive
Pioneers
Transcontinental Railroad
An event where gold is found in an area, which causes people to hurry to that area.
Cattle Drive
Gold Rush
Transcontinental Railroad
Pioneers
The process by which cowboys guided herds of cattle (cows) along dusty trails to be sold
Gold Rush
Cattle Drive
Pioneer
Manifest Destiny
Early settlers of an area, such as the American West
Cattle Drives
Gold Rush
Pioneers
Railroad
While the eastern cities were crowded, the Western United States...
was also crowded and full of big cities.
impossible to reach and barely settled by people.
offered people plenty of space to live and work.
was only reachable by ocean.
Pioneers, or early settlers to the American West included which of the following people?
Farmers
Miners
Ranchers
All of the above
On May 10, 1869, two railroad lines, one from the east and one from the west, met at Promontory Point, Utah. This was the completion of the ______________________.
Southern U.S. Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad
Kansas Pacific Railroad
California Railroad
Which of the following caused people to move to the American West?
Gold found in New York in 1849
Land that was good for raising cattle
Factory jobs in eastern cities
Large mountains to travel over
What was one way that the growing railroad changed life across America?
It allowed factory products to be shipped back to the east coast
It allowed people to find gold on the east coast.
It allowed raw materials from the West to be shipped quickly.
It caused people to move to China after they reached California.
