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Unit 1 Social Studies: 5.1E and 5.1CO

Quiz by Adrian Deese

Grade 5
Social Studies (2020)
South Carolina Learning Standards

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  • Q1
    What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
    it was a railway that traveled from South Carolina to California.
    it was a railway meant to connect the East of the US to the West.
    it was a railroad adventure that took people through Texas.
    it was a railway that followed the east coast.
    20s
  • Q2
    The Homestead Act:
    the government paid for all the houses of Americans
    the government gave houses to immigrants
    the government gave 160 acres of land to settlers who moved to the West
    the government gave farmland to African Americans only
    20s
  • Q3
    Immigrants sre:
    people coming INTO a country
    people born in a country
    people going OUT OF a country
    people moving across a country
    20s
  • Q4
    What did the government do to the buffalo population?
    they created a museum where settlers could learn about them
    they saved them and moved them into a zoo for protection
    they killed them for the Native Americans and helped to build homes for them
    they paid former Civil War soldiers to shoot and kill them to make way for the railroad
    20s
  • Q5
    What immigrant group was greatly responsible for building a substantial portion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
    Ethiopians
    Japanese
    Russians
    Chinese
    20s
  • Q6
    Which was NOT a reason that people traveled West?
    they wanted to start over
    they wanted land
    they wanted a better life
    they were forced to movethere by the government
    20s
  • Q7
    Whose life was most negatively affected by the Westward Movement?
    African Americans
    White settlers
    Chinese immigrants
    Native Americans
    20s
  • Q8
    TRUE OR FALSE: The land of the West was very easily to travel.
    TRUE
    FALSE
    20s
  • Q9
    Migration means:
    to move
    to start over
    to vote
    to grow
    20s
  • Q10
    Mining camps arose:
    because people moved West to find gold
    because settlers built towns along the Manifest Destiny
    because women were the primary miners
    because settlers' children needed a place to go in the summer
    20s
  • Q11
    Because they weren't American citizens, immigrants who came to work in America often faced:
    wild animals
    terrorism
    mining camps
    discrimination
    20s
  • Q12
    TRUE or FALSE: The Transcontinental Railroad greatly changed the landscape of the West.
    FALSE
    TRUE
    20s

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