Was meant to connect the East and the West, and was used to carry people and goods across the country in just a few days.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
transcontinental railroad
union pacific railroad workers
Central pacific railroad workers
telegraph
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Machine used to send messages along wires using electricity. Preferred by people over the Pony Express.
Telegraph
Pony Express
Stagecoach
Morse Code
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mail delivery service that used a relay of riders on horses to carry mail from Missouri to California.
Stagecoach
Telegraph
Pony Express
Morse Coade
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30 sec • 1 pt
Had to blast tunnels through the mountains to build the transcontinental railroad..
Lakota
Central Pacific Railroad workers
Union Pacific Railroad workers
Telegraph
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Came into conflict with Native Americans while building the transcontinental railroad.
Telegraph
Union Pacific Railroad workers
Central Pacific Railroad workers
History
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
1862 law offering free land to pioneers willing to start farms on the Great Plains.
Sod
Homesteaders
Homestead Act
Morse Code
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Hardships of farming on the Great Plains
Israelite
Dust Bowl
Harsh weather conditions, heat, droughts, prairie fires, locusts, sod had to be broken to prepare fields for crops.
Sod Houses
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