WorksheetsWestward Expansion Pop Quiz Day 2
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
How did railroad companies manage to pay for the construction of the transcontinental railroad?
Bank Loans
Selling company stock
Through government subsidies
Used company resouces
Choose all of the following that were results of the transcontinental railroad.
Spurs the expansion of the US
Opens the west to ranchers, miners, and farmers
The development of rail towns
The end of traditional family life
Quicker movement of goods to the east
What act hired the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railways to extend railways across the United States?
The Dawes Act
The Homestead Act
The Pacific Railway Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Which company built the eastern part of the transcontinental railroad from the east?
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Local Pacific
Western Pacific
What group of immigrants provided labor for the Central Pacific Railroad?
Chinese
Japanese
Irish
Italians
Where did the Transcontinental Railroad meet when it was completed?
Dallas Texas
Promontory, Utah
Sacramento, California
Omaha, Nebraska
What led settlers to travel west before the Civil War?
silver
land
gold
oil
After the Civil War, the largest mine in the west was actually a silver mine known as
The California Mine
The Promontory Payout
The Nevada Jackpot
The Comstock Lode
What percentage of homesteaders failed at settling and successfully improving their homestead?
40%
50%
60%
70%
What act, passed in 1862, gave 160 acres to heads of households to live on and improve over 5 years?
The Dawes Act
The Homestead Act
The Pacific Railway Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Choose the two main groups of settlers in the west.
Immigrants from northern cities
Chinese immigrants
Rich white males
Exodusters
After the Civil War, the demand for _____ skyrocketed.
oil
beef
gold
wheat
Choose all of the following that were factors that made cattle farming harder by the 1880s.
the open range was closed by barbed wire
overgrazing and drought
competition from sheep herding
large bonanza farms
new government regulations on beef production
