Students complete nine fill-in-the-blank problems about the Transcontinental Railroad's completion, the two railroad companies, and the meeting point at Promontory Summit. The matching activity pairs Trail of Tears, Promontory Summit, Homestead Act, and 49ers with their definitions.
Matching expansion events — from forced Cherokee removal to the railroad's completion — to their definitions shows how westward expansion simultaneously built settler opportunity and destroyed Native American communities and ways of life.
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Westward Expansion
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in the year 1869.
2. The two railroad companies were Union Pacific and Central Pacific.
3. The railroads met at Promontory Summit in the state of Utah.
4. Chinese and Irish immigrants did much of the railroad construction work.
5. The Cherokee were forced to walk the Trail of Tears in 1838.
6. Native Americans were forced to live on areas called reservations.
7. Westward expansion led to the destruction of buffalo herds on the plains.
8. The Indian Removal Act forced tribes to move west of the Mississippi River.
9. The Oklahoma Land Rush took place in the year 1889.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
Trail of Tears
→ Cherokee forced march
free land for farmers
Promontory Summit
→ railroads joined here
California gold seekers
Homestead Act
→ free land for farmers
Cherokee forced march
49ers
→ California gold seekers
railroads joined here
Westward Expansion
★ Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1) The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in the year 1869.
2) The two railroad companies were Union Pacific and Central Pacific.
3) The railroads met at Promontory Summit in the state of Utah.
4) Chinese and Irish immigrants did much of the railroad construction work.
5) The Cherokee were forced to walk the Trail of Tears in 1838.
6) Native Americans were forced to live on areas called reservations.
7) Westward expansion led to the destruction of buffalo herds on the plains.
8) The Indian Removal Act forced tribes to move west of the Mississippi River.
9) The Oklahoma Land Rush took place in the year 1889.
★ Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1) Match each item to its correct answer.
Trail of Tears
→ Cherokee forced march
free land for farmers
Promontory Summit
→ railroads joined here
California gold seekers
Homestead Act
→ free land for farmers
Cherokee forced march
49ers
→ California gold seekers
railroads joined here
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