1. Expanding Westward/Turn of the Century Review

2. Why were cattle trails needed during the 1840’s in the Great Plains?

3. Answer: To get cattle from Texas to the railroads.

4. Who were the men responsible for driving the cattle to the railroads
Who were the men responsible for driving the cattle to the railroads? What ethnicity were a majority of them?

5. Answer: Cowboys, African American and Mexican

6. Name the 2 major railroad lines on the Transcontinental Railroad.

7. Answer: Union Pacific and Central Pacific

8. A majority of the railroad workers were from what country?

9. Answer: China

10. This major cattle trail started around San Antonio, Texas and ended in Abilene, Kansas.

11. Answer: The Chisholm Trail

12. About how may cattle were driven up the Chisholm Trail from 1867-1872?

13. Answer: Around 3 million

14. What was the name given to settlers who were given land by the government and moved to the Central United States?

15. Answer: Homesteaders

16. The Central United States was called the ____________ _____________
The Central United States was called the ____________ _____________. It was land used for what economic activity?

17. Answer: The Great Plains, farming

18. The gold rush in the 1840’s persuaded many easterners to move to this state in search of riches!!!!

19. Answer: California

20. What problem did these trails create for homesteaders living in the Great Plains?

21. Answer: The trails cut across their land and destroyed parts of their farms.

22. What did the homesteaders do to try and solve this problem?

23. Answer: Homesteaders fenced in their property with barbed wire to keep the cattle from coming across their land.

24. This man is responsible for inventing the telegraph and telephone.

25. Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

26. These brothers were bicycle makers, but decided to try and develop a flying machine…otherwise known as an airplane.

27. Answer: Orville and Wilbur Wright

28. George Washington Carver was a African American ___________ who invented products that could be made with _________________.

29. Answer: Scientist, peanuts

30. How did growing peanuts help farmers in the southern United States?

31. Answer: Peanut crops improved worn out soil.

32. ________________ was an inventor who created the _______________; a machine that could record voices and play them back. He also invented the light bulb.

33. Answer: Thomas Edison, phonograph

34. Give 3 reasons the Native Americans so upset that the Transcontinental Railroad was being built?

35. Answer: 1) It was cutting across their land
2) disrupted buffalo herds.
3) They were removed from their land and forced to live in reservations.