Transcontinental Railroad Test

An area of land that the government gave to people or companies willing to move out west is called___

• land grant

• tract

• commerce

• transcontinental railroad

• manifest destiny

The belief that the American people should control the whole country was known as ____

• Great Compromise

• commerce

• transcontinental railroad

• land grant

• manifest destiny

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____ is the movement of people out west

• commerce

• Westward Expansion

• Great Compromise

• manifest destiny

• land grant

A ____ is a set of railroad tracks that run from coast to coast

• commerce

• Great Compromise

• transcontinental railroad

• manifest destiny

• land grant

Who did much of the country actually belong to?

• miners

• Native Americans

• Abraham Lincoln

• Irish immigrants

• Chinese Immigrants

What are the train tracks that run from coast to coast called?

• immigrants

• westward expansion

• commerce

• manifest destiny

• transcontinental railroad

Where did the two train tracks finally connect?

• California

• China

• Utah

• Texas

• Nebraska

What was found in California in 1848?

• sugar cane

• gold

• Abraham Lincoln

• lumber

• immigrants

What is one group of immigrants that built the transcontinental railroad?

• miners

• Native Americans

• railroad companies

• Abraham Lincoln

• Chinese