Western Expansion(Unit 2)

Question 1

Push factor

Answer 1

What causes people to leave

Question 2

Push factors to the west

Answer 2

Overcrowding
Jobs
Ethnic/religious repression
Refuge for outlaws

Question 3

Pull factor

Answer 3

What leads people to a particular area

Question 4

Pull factors

Answer 4

Land
Gold silver oil
Freedom of religion
Family
Jobs
Adventure

Question 5

Manifest Destiny

Answer 5

Philosophy which stated that God clearly wanted hard working Americans to occupy North America from east to west

Question 6

Johns O Sullivan

Answer 6

Gave idea of Manifest Destiny

Question 7

Ways America grew

Answer 7

Britain cedes its territory east of the Mississippi
Louisiana purchase
Spain cedes Florida
Texans rebel against Mexico

Question 8

Mexican war

Answer 8

USA obtains CA NM AZ and TX

Question 9

Pacific railways act

Answer 9

Grants railroad company’s 10 miles on either side of track

Question 10

Morris land grant

Answer 10

Grants from states for the construction of educational facilities

Question 11

Homestead act

Answer 11

For $10 settlers could have 160 acres of land if certain criteria was met

Question 12

Transcontinental railroad

Answer 12

Connected the east coast with the west coast

7 years to complete

Question 13

Central pacific Railroad

Answer 13

Moved east out of Sacramento CA used Chinese immigrants as workers

Question 14

Union Pacific Railroad

Answer 14

Moved west out of Omaha NB

Used Irish immigrants and CW vets to lay track

Question 15

Exodusters

Answer 15

Groups of African Americans moved who moved west
Led by pay singleton
Get away from harsh treatment
Book of Exodus

Question 16

Dry farming

Answer 16

Farming crops that don’t need much water

Question 17

Bonanza Farms

Answer 17

Farm controlled by large buissness

Grew single crops

Question 18

Placer mining

Answer 18

Shovel loose dirt into boxes/pans run water over it

Question 19

Cattle Industry expansion

Answer 19

Growing population=larger demand for beef

Question 20

Long drive

Answer 20

Transport cattle from ranches to cow towns

Question 21

Cowboys

Answer 21

Moved cattle to cow towns

Question 22

Joseph Glidden

Answer 22

Invented Barbed Wire to keep cattle from eating farmers crops

Question 23

Populist party

Answer 23

Created by labor workers to increase circulation of $

Progressive income taxes

Question 24

Squatters

Answer 24

People who moved onto land that doesn’t belong to them

Question 25

Dawes act

Answer 25

Gave plots of land to Native American families

Not good land

Question 26

Boomer

Answer 26

Settler who rushed into the land legally in great race

Question 27

Sooner

Answer 27

Settler who marked land before the race illegally