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Westward Expansion 5.1.CO & 5.1.CE

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which group was most negatively affected by building the Transcontinental Railroad?

a)

African Americans

b)

Mexican Americans

c)

Native Americans

d)

White settlers

2.

Why did many Americans move westward during the 1800s?

a)

forced from their homes in the east

b)

manifest Destiny, gold mines, farmland

c)

they were forced to change religions

d)

they never left

3.

Expansion of the US occurred during WHAT time period?

a)

1900s

b)

1800s

c)

1600s

d)

1780s

4.

What was discovered out in California during the 1840s?

a)

Gold

b)

Frankinsence

c)

Myrrh

d)

Salt

5.

What type of transportation made it faster and easier to get out West during the 1800s?

a)

Train

b)

Canoe

c)

Airplane

d)

Car

6.

What area was starting to get a little overcrowded, causing people to move West?

a)

Eastern Cities

b)

Northern Ports

c)

Southern Farms

7.

Land out West could be 'fertile' -- What does fertile mean?

a)

Plants grow well there

b)

Soil was dry

c)

Lots of trees

d)

Many rivers and lakes

8.

Which mountains did the Settlers have to cross?

a)

Rocky Mountains

b)

Appalachian Mountains

c)

Andes Mountains

d)

Alps

9.

TRUE or FALSE: The journey was long, but easy for the pioneers moving West.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Which of the following is NOT a reason people moved West?

a)

Gold

b)

Land ownership

c)

Farming opportunities

d)

Freedom

e)

A stress-free, easy life

11.

What were the "Pull" factors of the West?

(Choose 3)

a)

Finding family members

b)

Earning money

c)

Homestead Act of 1862

d)

Military

e)

Cheaper Land

12.

The vocabulary term associated with African American who moved west.

a)

relocation

b)

reservations

c)

assimilation

d)

exodusters

13.

A __________________ is a system of transportation that goes from one side of the country to the other.

a)

cattle drive

b)

homestead

c)

transcontinental railroad

d)

exodust

14.

________________________________ is the idea that Americans should rule from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

a)

Frontierism

b)

Monopoly

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

Patriotism

15.

Pull factors DRAW people to an area. Which of the following was NOT a "pull factor" that pulled people toward the West?

a)

wide open, unsettled land

b)

big cities and factories

c)

growth of mining

d)

agricultural opportunities

16.

The Great Plains experienced _________________, long periods of no rain.

(fill in the blank)

a)

Storms

b)

Drought

c)

Blizzard

d)

Deserts

17.

What was Homesteading?

a)

Babysitting your little brothers.

b)

Encouraged western migration by granting 160 acres of land to people who paid only a small fee.

c)

Transportation line that opened in 1869, after 7 years of construction, that stretched from Nebraska to California.

d)

1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America.

18.

Allowed farmers to keep cattle from nearby ranches off their fields and away from their crops.

a)

steel plow

b)

barbed wire

c)

windmill

d)

sod house

19.

Allowed farmers to break up dry tough soil of the Great Plains.

a)

sod house

b)

windmill

c)

steel plow

d)

barbed wire

20.

These were used throughout the Great Plains to pump water from the ground and to provide power.

a)

windmills

b)

sod house

c)

steel plow

d)

barbed wire