Transcontinental railroad

Who was Theodore Judah?

• The man who created the first schoolhouse

• The man who invented the steam boat

• The man who dreamed up the Transcontinental Railroad

• The man who payed for the transontinental railroad

Who was the President who signed the Pacific Railway Act?

• Johnson

• Biden

• Lincoln

• Grant

Was the Pacific Railway Act and The Homestead Act Signed into law

in the same year?

• Yes

• No

When was the Pacific Railway Act signed into law?

• 1862

• 1865

• 1877

• 1914

ACT OF CONGRESS

• a law made by the President of the United States without congress

• a law that congress does not enforce

• a bill that has passed both the United States House and Senate of Congress and been signed into law by the President.

• a peaceful take over of the Capital

6,000 immigrants who

worked for the Central Pacific Railroad

were from this country

• England

• China

• Brazil

• Cuba

Who was Benjamin Pap Singleton?

• The United States Congressman who kept slaves after the Civil War

• Father of the African American exodus

• A man who owned a peanut farm

• A librarian who helped women learn how to sew

What was the name of the name of the oldest and only remaining Black settlement west of the Mississippi River?

• Charleston

• Topeka

• Tampa

• Nicodemus

What act of the US Congress made it possible for

black Americans to migrate to the west?

• The Homestead Act

• The Clean Air Act

• The Clean Water Act

• The Land Act

Why were migrants called "Exodusters"?

• Exodusters is a name that inspired people to "Exit" their old lives

• Exodusters was the last name of the first person to leave Kentucky for Kansas

• Exodusters is a name which took inspiration from the biblical Exodus, during which Moses led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and into the Promised Land.

• Exodusters were a group of white Americans who helped slaves leave their masters