Western Movement

Question 0

The years immediately before and after the civil war were the era of the ______, marked by long cattle drives for hundreds of miles over untended open land in the west, the only way to get cattle to market

Answer 0

American Cowboy

Question 1

Following the Civil War the westward movement of settlers intensified into the vast region between the _____ River and the ____ Ocean

Answer 1

Mississippi

Pacific

Question 2

Many Americans had to rebuild their loves after the civil war and moved west to take advantage of the _____________, which gave free public land in the western territories to settlers who would live on and farm the land

Answer 2

Homestead Act of 1862

Question 3

Southerners and African Americans, in particular, moved west to week new opportunities after the civil war

Answer 3

Exodusters

Question 4

New technologies (i.e ____ and the ____) opener new lanes in the west for settlement and made farming more prosperous

Answer 4

Railroads

Mechanical reaper

Question 5

Which group of people had forcible removal

Answer 5

American Indians