Westward Expansion

Question 1

US Government Issued Homestead Act

Answer 1

1862

Question 2

US purchased Alaska from Russia

Answer 2

1867

Question 3

Driving of the Golden Spike

Answer 3

1869

Question 4

Oklahoma Land Rush

Answer 4

1889

Question 5

US Census Bureau end of the Frontier

Answer 5

1890

Question 6

Count by Government of the number of people

Answer 6

Census

Question 7

Moisture that falls to earth (rain, snow, sleet, hail)

Answer 7

Precipitation

Question 8

People attracted to the mining frontier in hopes of getting rich quickly

Answer 8

Americans and immigrants

Question 9

Those most likely to become rich by the mining frontier

Answer 9

Mine Owner and Merchants

Question 10

Across the Continent

Answer 10

Transcontinent

Question 11

Railroad across the continent. Shortened the trip. Transportation and Communication. Helped settle the West.

Answer 11

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 12

Cattle ranchers drove their cattle on long trip to towns with railroads

Answer 12

Long Drive

Question 13

Cowboys

Answer 13

Young Men, who herded cattle on the Long Drive West. Did Chores.

Question 14

Railroads sold land given to them from US Government to encourage people to move West

Answer 14

Railroad Land Bargain

Question 15

Homestead Act

Answer 15

US government gave 160 acres per land for free if you settle and farm for 5 years

Question 16

Houses made of sod because not enough wood in great plains. Warm in winter and cool in summer. Dirty and Leaky. Insects and Animals could get in the walls.

Answer 16

Sod Houses

Question 17

Dry farming, barbed-wire fences, steel plows to turn the tough sod and low rainfall

Answer 17

New Ways of Farming