Name: ________________________________________

Questions about Video on Westward Expansion

1. Who lived to the west of the Mississippi River in the 1850s?

2. Who were the first to move to the Western Frontier?

3. Individuals stripped the land of _________________________________, and

underground mining was then carried out by ___________________________.

4. How did miners lay the foundations for permanent communities?

5. What was the Homestead Act? What did it give people? What did
people have to do to get the land?

6. Where were cattle located and how were they identified?

7. Why was it so difficult to live in the West?

8. Why did cattlemen leave the West or leave their jobs as cattlemen?