How did completion of the first transcontinental railroad impact settlement of the American West?
A. The railroad led to new discoveries of precious minerals.
B. The railroad required immense quantities of iron and coal to build.
C. The railroad frightened Indian tribes, who retreated to reservations.
D. The railroad made it easier for ranchers and farmers to ship goods back east.

Which of the following would geographers consider a “pull” factor that contributed to the settling of the Far West?
A. The amount of farmland available for sale in the Northeast and Midwest was limited.
B. After the Depression of 1873, many craftsmen in Northeastern cities could not find work.
C. The children of large farming families in Germany and Scandinavia did not have enough land of their own.
D. Only a decade after the California Gold Rush, new discoveries of gold and silver were made in Nevada, Colorado, and South Dakota.

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