Western Expansion

The first railroad to cross the United States was the....

• Union Pacific Railroad
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Missouri Railroad
• Transcontinental Railroad

Which group lost the most from the building of the railroads?

• Settlers
• Western citizens
• The government
• Native Americans

_______________ were created along the railroad with stores as it was being built.

• Vigilantes
• Boom towns
• Nitro-glycerin
• Comstock Lode

The Chinese workers were hired to work on the railroad because they would work as cheap _____________________.

• Boom towns
• subsidies
• vigilantes
• manual labor

All of the following are reasons why the Chinese were excluded under the Chinese Exclusion Act EXCEPT:

• they practiced a different culture
• violence erupted
• they stole white workers' jobs
• they worked too hard

Which of the following BEST explains how railroads stimulated the national economy in the late 1800s?

• They increased the number of railroad barons
• They allowed a large number of people to enter the United States
• They efficiently allowed products to be shipped across the country
• They diminished the power of monopolies in the railroad industry

Invention of the steel plow, the passage of the Homestead Act, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad all contributed to the

• development of the Great Plains
• growth of the plantation system of agriculture
• extension of slavery into the western territories
• gold rushes in California and Nevada

Which of the following inventions brought an end to the open range on the Great Plains?

• steel plow
• reaper
• windmill
• barbed wire

boomtown

• A town that makes loud noises.
• A town that sprang up near an important mining stake, rail center or cattle center.
• Towns built near the ocean
• Towns that last a long time.

In the late 1840's many people moved to California to

• build sod houses

• look for gold

• fight native americans

• trade with Europe