History Review- Week 29 - The Transcontinental Railroad

History Review- Week 29 - The Transcontinental Railroad

4th Grade

9 Qs

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History Review- Week 29 - The Transcontinental Railroad

History Review- Week 29 - The Transcontinental Railroad

Assessment

Quiz

Social Studies

4th Grade

Easy

Created by

Saylah Poythress

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9 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The two original railroad companies that helped build the transcontinental railroad were Central Pacific and _______________ .

Western Union

Union Pacific

Midwestern

Great Californian

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Media Image

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

Media Image

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

Media Image

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