The two original railroad companies that helped build the transcontinental railroad were Central Pacific and _______________ .
History Review- Week 29 - The Transcontinental Railroad

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Saylah Poythress
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Western Union
Union Pacific
Midwestern
Great Californian
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
This man pictured here was determined there would be a transcontinental railroad, and he told his wife, “It will be built, and I am going to have something to do with it.
Theodore Judah
Leland Stanford
Charles Crocker
Collis Huntington
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The Central Pacific Company could only find 800 American workers interested in helping build the new transcontinental railroad, so they hired __________________ immigrants to fulfill their workforce needs.
Irish
Chinese
Italian
Polish
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
At the Wedding of the Rails, locomotives came together to represent the meeting of the East and West in a ceremony at _______________________.
Sacramento, California
Grand Junction, Colorado
Promontory, Utah
Omaha, Nebraska
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
From the first shovel of dirt to the meeting of the locomotives at Promontory, how long did it take to build the transcontinental railroad?
three months
six months
four years
6 years
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Chinese immigrants were not the only group to be employed by the railroad to help build the transcontinental railroad. What other group helped the Union Pacific Company build their portion of the track?
American Indians
Mexican immigrants
Canadian fur trappers
Irish immigrants
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Despite their hard work on the transcontinental railroad, Chinese immigrants _____________________.
were treated badly in America, especially California
were never paid for the work they completed
were viewed as weak and lazy
were given promotions and eventually became owners of the rail companies
8.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Immigrants working on the railroad used ___________________ to construct the track.
bulldozers
steam shovels
cranes
none of the above, because they used their hands
9.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
What kinds of hazards or dangerous conditions did railroad workers experience as they were building the transcontinental railroad? Click/choose all that apply.
Extreme heat and harsh winters
Fingers, hands, and even death would happen from explosives
Railroad workers would use bulldozers
Railroad workers would hang high in baskets 1,500 feet in the air
American Indians would attack the Union Pacific railroad workers because they laid track in their territory
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