Westward Expansion

Question 1

Name the regions from right to left

Answer 1

Northeast, Souteast, Midwest, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, Pacific, Noncontinguous

Question 2

What ocean is to the right of the US

Answer 2

Atlantic

Question 3

What ocean is to the left of the US

Answer 3

Pacific

Question 4

Where is the textile industry big?

Answer 4

New England (e.g., Main, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, part of New York)

Question 5

_____ was an early instance of American women working in fields of industry outside the home and earning their own money for the first time

Answer 5

Textiles

Question 6

Where was steel big

Answer 6

Pittsburgh

Question 7

The steel industry was run by ______, who broke up unions and had his workers do their jobs in harsh conditions

Answer 7

Andrew Carnegie

Question 8

Where was the automobile industry big?

Answer 8

Detroit

Question 9

The creation of the _____ helped make the production of cars much easier and straightforward, since each person only specialized in _____ thing on an assembly line and the car was passed down the line

Answer 9

assembly

Question 10

Where was meatpacking big

Answer 10

Chicago

Question 11

Upton Sinclair published a report called “The Jungle” about the _____, of the meatpacking industry in the early 1900s

Answer 11

gross, unsanitary conditions

Question 12

Where was hair care and cosmetics big

Answer 12

St. Louis

Question 13

As women entered fields of industry, beauty and styling was a field where they were able to make their own way of life _____

Answer 13

without being compared to/paid less than men

Question 14

Most factories and large businesses were toward the _____ of the United States since most people lived there

Answer 14

East Coast

Question 15

People do not want to have very long commutes to work, so they move to where the jobs are and that’s how you create ____

Answer 15

cities

Question 16

The Transcontinental Railroad was built across the nation, from _____ to _____, connecting to other smaller railroad tracks that led all the way from East to West

Answer 16

California to Nebraska

Question 17

The Transcontinental Railroad allowed for easier _____, quicker _____, and faster _____ all over the nation.

Answer 17

• travel
• trading
• communication

Question 18

The Transcontinental Railroad ahd to go through the _____ and _____ mountains

Answer 18

Sierra Nevada
Rocky

Question 19

Work to build the transcontinental railroad was often done by_____, who were treated horribly, paid less for doing more work, and were often victims to dangerous accidents

Answer 19

Chinese immigrants

Question 20

Resources found in the ____ could be more easily accessed in the _____ due to the Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 20

West
East

Question 21

______ miles of track connected cities by the end of the 1860s

Answer 21

30,000

Question 22

The_____ provided people with 160 acres of land for free if they promised to settle the land out West for _____ years and send their products to markets in the east

Answer 22

Homestead Act
Five

Question 23

The west provided new opportunities for _____, _____, _____, and _____

Answer 23

• single women,
• former slaves
• immigrants,
• poor farmers

Question 24

The chance of_____ and_____ compelled people to move out West

Answer 24

• new beginnings
• brand-new adventures

Question 25

Former slaves that moved to Kansas were called _____

Answer 25

Exodusters

Question 26

The Great Plains were ______ that slowly rises higher from East (the Mississippi River) to West (the Rocky Mountains)

Answer 26

dry, treeless grassland

Question 27

The Great Plains are home to many different _____ who lived off the buffalo and other resources of the area

Answer 27

Native American tribes

Question 28

There is _____ in the Great Plains, so the dry ground is easily_____ by wind and water. Dry climate = hard to farm

Answer 28

- little rainfall - eroded

Question 29

The Great Plains has lots of wind, so _____ are common since there are very few trees or tall buildings to block the wind

Answer 29

dust storms and tornados

Question 30

_____ became the main crop of the Midwest because it grows_____

Answer 30

- Wheat - easily without a lot of water

Question 31

Because there was not a lot of wood, farmers used_____ to _____ and to prevent other animals and people from coming onto their land

Answer 31

- barbed wire - keep their livestock contained

Question 32

Remember, while there were trees out west, there_____, and what few trees people did have needed to be used for things like _____

Answer 32

- weren’t a lot of them - firewood and cooking food

Question 33

_____ used the power of the wind to pump water up from underground aquifers (wells)

Answer 33

windmills

Question 34

The_____ invented by _____ was able to easily cut through the dry and rocky soil of the Great Plains

Answer 34

- steel plow - John Deere

Question 35

Settlers used_____ to focus on crops that grew well without a lot of water (such as wheat and other grains)

Answer 35

dry farming

Question 36

Without access to wood, settlers had to use mud and _____in order to construct their houses

Answer 36

sod (layers of dirt and grass)

Question 37

_____ became the main animal raised out in the plains. They were raised for_____ that was either used by the settlers or sent to markets in the east

Answer 37

- Cattle - beef

Question 39

The_____ allowed settlers in the middle of nowhere to order things that could be _____, such as clocks and sewing machines

Answer 39

- Sears Catalog - delivered to them by train

Question 40

The _____ moved people across the west more easily than ever before, making the idea of moving west more appealing than ever before

Answer 40

- Transcontinental Railroad

Question 41

All the innovations allowed people to see the_____ as more than a _____

Answer 41

- Midwest - barren, treeless wasteland

Question 42

_____were set aside for Native Americans to move to

Answer 42

- Reservations

Question 43

Native Americans were encouraged to_____, meaning the_____ to try and fit in with white society

Answer 43

- assimilate - give up their own culture

Question 44

Conflict with white settlers and_____ led to an increasing number of battles between Whites and Natives

Answer 44

Buffalo Soldiers

Question 45

After_____, American settlers and soldiers tried to push the Nez Perce onto a reservation

Answer 45

gold was found in their home territory

Question 46

_____, the leader of the Nez Perce,_____, but they were all caught and forced onto the reservation

Answer 46

- Chief Joseph - attempted to lead an escape to Canada

Question 47

Led by_____, The Apache was known for _____

Answer 47

- Geronimo - attacking settlers that invaded their homeland in the southwest

Question 48

Who did Geronimo lead

Answer 48

The Apache

Question 49

o Geronimo and his tribe were captured and he spent the last_____ of his life in _____

Answer 49

- 20 years - prison

Question 50

The _____ are a large group of _____ in the Midwest

Answer 50

- Sioux - different tribes

Question 51

The Sioux lifestyle was threatened as settlers invaded and hunted their main resource,_____, to extinction

Answer 51

buffalo

Question 52

o At the Battle of_____, Colonel _____ led his men into combat against the Sioux. His troop was_____ by the nomadic warriors and their leader,_____

Answer 52

- Little Big Horn - George Custer - destroyed - Sitting Bull

Question 53

In response to Little Big Horn, American soldiers massacred the Sioux at_____

Answer 53

Wounded Knee

Question 54

The _____ forced Native Americans on reservations to become farmers apart from their tribes

Answer 54

- Dawes Act

Question 55

Native children were sent to boarding schools to_____

Answer 55

learn American language and culture instead of their own