Homestead Act
The Homestead Act provided this to the people who wanted to move westward.
What is free land?
It included land west of this state.
What is Mississippi?
Manifest destiny was used to justify the war with this country.
Mexico.
This is the state where the Gold Rush in 1848 took place.
What is California?
This is the year the Homestead Act was in effect in the lower 48 until.
What is 1976?
This is the year that the Homestead Act became a law.
What is 1862?
The amount the country increased in size.
What is doubled?
These are the years the war with Mexico took place.
What is 1840's?
This is the direction that people migrated to during the gold rush.
What is west?
This is the year the Homesteading Act was in effect until in Alaska.
What is 1986?
This president signed the Homestead act into law.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The year the Louisiana Purchase took place.
What is 1803?
The amount of land acquired, previously owned by another country.
What is one million acres?
What is the Wild West?
This popular book and eventual TV series is based on a family of homesteaders.
What is Little House on the Prairie?
The settlers of the land had to live there for this many years and improve the land.
What is 5 years?
The Louisiana Purchase cost this much in US dollars.
What is $15 Million?
Manifest Destiny is the belief that they were destined to this.
What is expand west?
This person was the first to find gold in California.
Who is James W. Marshall?
The battle over this helped start the Civil War.
What is Slavery?
The act provided this many acres of unoccupied land to settlers.
What is 160 acres?
This person was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This country previously owned the land that was acquired.
What is Mexico?
These are the people who traveled along the California Trail.
Who are the 49ers?
This kept lines of communication open during the Westward Expansion.
What is the Transcontinental Telegraph?