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Transcontinental Railroad Study Practice

Authored by Amanda McDermott

Social Studies

5th Grade

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Transcontinental Railroad Study Practice
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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

Match the following

Union Pacific Railroad

Split up Indian property/reservations into individual areas

Central Pacific Railroad

Chinese Immigrants

The Dawes Act

Irish Immigrants

Homestead Act

160 acres of free land to farm

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

What two companies worked on the Transcontinental Railroad?

Union Pacific and Central Pacific

Union Pacific and Urban Pacific

Central Pacific and Railroad Pacific

3.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

The Transcontinental Railroad went through the ______ ______ Mountains.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 5 pts

Media Image

What hypothesis can you make about the family in the picture?

They are eastern factory workers enjoying the day off.

The settled west as part of the Homestead Act of 1862.

They were German immigrants that farmed land in the east.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

How did the railroad affect the lives of Native Americans?

It decreased their isolation from American culture.

It provided jobs for Native Americans so they could most off reservations.

It decreased the buffalo population that Native Americans depended upon.

It provided them access to markets for the goods they produced.

6.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

Railroads helped farmers by transporting their product to ______.

7.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

Match the following

Year the railroad was completed

Promontory Summit, Utah

Where the two railroad companies met to complete the railroad

Way of life was ruined because the buffalo were killed, and were forced to undergo assimilation.

Chinese worker experience

Faced dangerous explosives, disease, starvation, and paid less than the Irish.

Native American experience

1869

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