Railroads Ch. 3 WSH & G

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Transcontinental Railroad means...

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A railway line that connected the east and west coasts of the United States.

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Who was the Captain in the Civil War who was asked to travel to the West to search for a practical route for the railroad through the Cascade mountains?

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Captain George B. McClellan

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Does a land grant or financial grant need to be paid back to the granting company?

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No

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What is a nativist?

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A nativist is someone who believes that immigrants should not be welcomed into the United States even though they weren't born here.

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Which city in Washington was instrumental in supplying provisions to Klondike Stampeders?

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Seattle

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What is the name of the city that popped up to support the gold miners of the Klondike?

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Dawson

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If miners who traveled to Canada to find their fortune in the Klondike didn't have the entire 2000+ pounds of their "outfit" to survive on, who made them turn back because it was thought they would likely not survive?

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The Royal Canadian (Northwest) Mounted Police

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This "Bill" passed in 1853 by Congress was a new law that authorized the exploration and surveying of a potential route for the nation's first transcontinental railroad from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast. This "Bill" was called...

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The Pacific Railroad Survey Bill

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After the first transcontinental railroad was built to the south from Omaha, Nebraska to California, another route was built starting in Carlton, Minnesota and connected to Kalama, Washington. This connection became part of which rail route?

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The Northern Pacific

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When the tracks joined in Montana in 1883, a journey that used to take three to five months could now be made in...

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five days or less