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Westward Expansion
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What is the process farmers used to bring water to their crops in dry climates?
dry farming
pooling
irrigation
rain dance
2
What does transcontinental mean?
Miner
Railroad
Across
Cross Country
3
Which of the following people did railroad companies use as help with explosives?
Chinese immigrants
Canadian immigrants
Giant cyclops
Black cowboys
4
How did a sod house feel in the summer?
Humid
Cool
Clean
Hot
5
Settlers had to learn to _____ to the new lands in which they now lived in.
fireproof
frontier
adapt
cattle
6
What kind of rooted grass did pioneers use to build their houses out of?
Bermuda
Sod
Mud
Sand
7
When and where was the Transcontinental Railroad finished?
Omaha, NE 1903
Promontory Point, UT 1869
Sacramento, CA 1898
Charleston, SC 1864
8
The belief that the U.S. should keep expanding west was called this.
Gold Rush
Manifest Destiny
E Pluribus Unum
Cattle drive
9
The ________ brought people to California in 1849 in search of this precious metal.
cattle drive
pony express
pioneer party
gold rush
10
Which president signed the Homestead Act?
Andrew Johnson
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Barack Obama
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What was a miner's primary job?
Dig for gold.
Make railroad tracks.
Move cattle.
Plow fields.
