Expanding West and Overseas

What was the transcontinental railroad used for?

• To help immigrants come to America to work as ranchers

• To help Ranchers that had limited ways to get their cattle to large cities

• To help people rush to California for Gold

• To create jobs and make it easier to send materials east

How did the transcontinental railroad affect immigration to the United States?

• Irish and Italian people moved to California

• German people moved to Salt Lake City, Utah

• More Eastern European people came to America to live

• Chinese immigrants came to work on the transcontinental railroad

Which of these was a driving force behind Manifest Destiny?

• the factory work in the West

• the rich culture of immigrants

• the many resources in the West

• the gold that was found in California

After the transcontinental railroad was built, cattle drives stopped in __________.

• railroad towns

• coast towns

• territories

• cattle drives

The railroad was also able to accommodate ___________.

• Passengers

• Pioneers

• Ranchers

• None of these

What is the reason for the changes in population that you see on the graph?

• As cities became overcrowded, more people moved to the country

• Even though farmers were doing well, people preferred to live in cities

• As manufacturing increase, people moved to cities to work in factories

• Western states became too crowded, so people started moving back east

What hypothesis can be made about the family in this picture?

• They were German immigrants, and the only land they could afford was out west.

• They were not able to find work in the large cities of the east, so they moved West to start a new life.

• They settled in the West as part of the Homestead Act and worked hard to build a home.

• They came to the Great Plains to earn a living by farming their land and building a Sodhouse.

What are two ways homesteaders modified their environment?

• dry farming

• cattle grazing

• irrigation

• immigration

What material was used to build many homes on the windy prairie?

• sod

• iron

• steel

• mud