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Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion PASS Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the geography of the West affect railroad builders and travel? | The varied geography of the West discouraged many railroad builders and made travel to the West difficult. |
| What did the railroads have to cross? | They crossed the vast Great Plains, the snow-covered Rocky Mountains, the deserts of the Great Basin and the rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains. |
| What linked the Eastern and Western United States? | In 1862 the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads began building a transcontinental railroad to link the Eastern and Western United States. |
| How did the development of the Transcontinental railroad affect development of the West? | It was easier and less expensive to travel. It increased trade from the East to the West, and it encouraged more people to move west. |
| What groups of people worked on building the transcontinental railroad? | Former Civil War soldiers, free African Americans, and Irish, German and Chinese immigrants worked on it. |
| Which group of workers were not treated fairly while working on the transcontinental railroad? | Coolies or Chinese immigrants were often treated unfairly and were paid less than other workers. |
| How did the railroad change the Native Americans' way of life? | It brought more settlers to their homelands and destroyed their game or animals they hunted. |
| What are reservations? | They are land where the government resettled the Native Americans in hopes that the Native Americans would give up hunting and become farmers. |
| What were the Lakota leaders promised? | In 1868, the Lakota leaders signed a treaty with the United States to create the Great Lakota Reservation. This promised them land on the Black Hills forever. |
| What was Colonel George Custer's mission? | He worked with the Seventh Calvary to defeat the Lakota and force them onto a new reservation. |
| What did Crazy Horse do? | He helped lead the Lakota to victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, which was the biggest victory Native Americans ever won against United States forces; it led to the end of freedom for Native Americans. |
| What did the Homestead Act do? | It gave 160 acres of land on the Great Plains to any adult man or widow who would pay a small fee and farm the land for five years. This encouraged settlement in the West. |
| Who were homesteaders? | They were people who bought land under the Homestead Act. |
| Who are sodbusters? | They are homesteaders on the Great Plains. They are called this because they had to work hard to make the thick soil suitable for planting crops. |
| What technology made life easier for the sodbusters? | Technology such as windmills, steel plows and barbed wire made life for sodbusters a little easier. |
| Who were exodusters? | African Americans pioneers who moved to the Great Plains. |
| Where did exodusters live? | They started new lives in communities on the Great Plains, such as Nicodemus, Kansas. |
| What did cowboys do on cattle drives? | They guided huge herds of cattle north to new railroad lines. |
| Who did ranchers sell their cattle to? | They made large profits selling their cattle in the East. |
| What caused the cattle drives to come to an end? | The conflicts between ranchers and farmers on the Great Plains and expanding railroad lines caused it to come to an end. |
| Why did people come to California? | They went in search of gold during the gold rush. |
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