Westward Expansion Flashcards
Name the regions from right to left
Northeast, Souteast, Midwest, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, Pacific, Noncontinguous
What ocean is to the right of the US
Atlantic
What ocean is to the left of the US
Pacific
Where is the textile industry big?
New England (e.g., Main, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, part of New York)
_____ was an early instance of American women working in fields of industry outside the home and earning their own money for the first time
Textiles
Where was steel big
Pittsburgh
The steel industry was run by ______, who broke up unions and had his workers do their jobs in harsh conditions
Andrew Carnegie
Where was the automobile industry big?
Detroit
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
assembly
Where was meatpacking big
Chicago
Upton Sinclair published a report called “The Jungle” about the _____, of the meatpacking industry in the early 1900s
gross, unsanitary conditions
Where was hair care and cosmetics big
St. Louis
As women entered fields of industry, beauty and styling was a field where they were able to make their own way of life _____
without being compared to/paid less than men
Most factories and large businesses were toward the _____ of the United States since most people lived there
East Coast
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 ____
cities
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
California to Nebraska
The Transcontinental Railroad allowed for easier _____, quicker _____, and faster _____ all over the nation.
- travel
- trading
- communication
The Transcontinental Railroad ahd to go through the _____ and _____ mountains
Sierra Nevada
Rocky
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
Chinese immigrants
Resources found in the ____ could be more easily accessed in the _____ due to the Transcontinental Railroad
West
East
______ miles of track connected cities by the end of the 1860s
30,000
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
Homestead Act
Five
