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WorksheetsWestward Expansion 5.1.CO & 5.1.CE
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which group was most negatively affected by building the Transcontinental Railroad?
African Americans
Mexican Americans
Native Americans
White settlers
Why did many Americans move westward during the 1800s?
forced from their homes in the east
manifest Destiny, gold mines, farmland
they were forced to change religions
they never left
Expansion of the US occurred during WHAT time period?
1900s
1800s
1600s
1780s
What was discovered out in California during the 1840s?
Gold
Frankinsence
Myrrh
Salt
What type of transportation made it faster and easier to get out West during the 1800s?
Train
Canoe
Airplane
Car
What area was starting to get a little overcrowded, causing people to move West?
Eastern Cities
Northern Ports
Southern Farms
Land out West could be 'fertile' -- What does fertile mean?
Plants grow well there
Soil was dry
Lots of trees
Many rivers and lakes
Which mountains did the Settlers have to cross?
Rocky Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
Andes Mountains
Alps
TRUE or FALSE: The journey was long, but easy for the pioneers moving West.
True
False
Which of the following is NOT a reason people moved West?
Gold
Land ownership
Farming opportunities
Freedom
A stress-free, easy life
What were the "Pull" factors of the West?
(Choose 3)
Finding family members
Earning money
Homestead Act of 1862
Military
Cheaper Land
The vocabulary term associated with African American who moved west.
relocation
reservations
assimilation
exodusters
A __________________ is a system of transportation that goes from one side of the country to the other.
cattle drive
homestead
transcontinental railroad
exodust
________________________________ is the idea that Americans should rule from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Frontierism
Monopoly
Manifest Destiny
Patriotism
Pull factors DRAW people to an area. Which of the following was NOT a "pull factor" that pulled people toward the West?
wide open, unsettled land
big cities and factories
growth of mining
agricultural opportunities
The Great Plains experienced _________________, long periods of no rain.
(fill in the blank)
Storms
Drought
Blizzard
Deserts
What was Homesteading?
Babysitting your little brothers.
Encouraged western migration by granting 160 acres of land to people who paid only a small fee.
Transportation line that opened in 1869, after 7 years of construction, that stretched from Nebraska to California.
1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America.
Allowed farmers to keep cattle from nearby ranches off their fields and away from their crops.
steel plow
barbed wire
windmill
sod house
Allowed farmers to break up dry tough soil of the Great Plains.
sod house
windmill
steel plow
barbed wire
These were used throughout the Great Plains to pump water from the ground and to provide power.
windmills
sod house
steel plow
barbed wire
