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Westward Expansion practice quiz multiple Choice
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Date | 28.03.2018 | Size | 10.68 Kb. | | #43351 |
| Name: ______________________________ Date: _____________
Mr. Armstrong | SS8 Period: ____________
Westward Expansion PRACTICE QUIZ
Multiple Choice: Answer the question with the best possible answer provided
____ What was most of the silver deep underground in rich streaks of ore called?
Lodes
Gold dust
Rock gold
Booms
____ In boomtowns, people who dealt out their own brand of justice without benefit of judge or jury were called
Subsidies
Miners
Vigilantes
Busts
____ When mining “booms” were followed by “busts,” boomtowns turned into
Gold towns
Ghost towns
Bust towns
Mining towns
____ What railroad connected the Atlantic & Pacific coasts?
Atlantic Railroad
Union Railroad
Pacific Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad
____ Railroad construction was made possible by government financial aid and land grants called
Gold grants
Subsidies
Boomtown loans
Rail loans
Matching: Match the terms/ideas below with the correct definition/answer in the box
ripple effect
long drive
Over 9 million buffalo were slaughtered by white settlers
branding
boomtown
railroads, free land and more rain
sod home
Promontory Point, Utah territory
4 time zones
“Pike’s peak, or bust!”
| ____ Transcontinental Railroad completion site
____ Created by railroad companies
____ Slogan used by prospectors who flocked to Colorado in 1859
____ A place that developed after valuable gold or mining possibilities were discovered
____ How ranchers showed who owned cattle
____ A reason Native Americans began to lose their culture
____ Factors that brought more settlers to the Plains
____ Herding cattle 1,000 miles or more to reach railroads
____ Name for a shelter that was often built by settlers in the mid-west
____ Gold is discovered, people migrate west, boomtowns are created, followed by ghost towns
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