5th grade Westward Expansion

__________ and _____________ were the two companies hired to build the railroad.

• Homestead, Pacific Railway

• Union Pacific, Central Pacific

• Atlantic Union, Pacific Union

• Promotory Summit, Ulysses S. Grant

The Central Pacific was known for hiring many immigrants from

• China

• Japan

• Vietnam

• Cambodia

The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged Americans to

• move out west

• build the railroad

• ration their food

• fight in the Civil War

Most of the workers for the Union Pacific Railroad came from what country?

• Ireland

• Italy

• Africa

What were areas set aside by the U.S. Government for Native Americans called?

• Homesteads

• Plains

• Reservations

What did the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 do with tribal lands of reservation?

• The land was divided into individual farms for Native American families.

• The Government took the land and built towns for miners.

• The Government took the land to be used as ranches for cowboys.

• The land was taken as punishment from the Native Americans.

What was the effect of the Battle of Wounded Knee?

• Once peaceful tribes began to seek revenge on settlers. Native Americans were given back their land in the Black Hills.

• Settlers learned about events at Wounded Knee and respected Native Americans.

• Native Americans moved to reservations without any other major battles.

• Native Americans were given back their land in the Black Hills.

What was the group of free African Americans that moved west and settled in a town Nicodemus, Kansas called?

• Homesteaders

• Sodbuster

• Exoduster

• Immigrant

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
• offered free land to those willing to farm it.
• offered land to gold prospectors.
• promised protection from Native Americans.

Who lived out west before the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Immigrants, farmers, miners, ranchers, and cowboys lived all over the west.

• Mostly Native American tribes with miners and farmers along the coast.

• Few Native Americans with large groups of settlers in Oregon.

• The West was mainly wild, open areas with no people