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First Transcontinental Railroad

Authored by John Robinson

Social Studies

11th Grade

First Transcontinental Railroad
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What railroad company started in California and worked their way east?

West Coast Railroad

Central Pacific Railroad

California Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How were the railroad companies paid?

By the year

By the mile

By the day

By the hour

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Most of the workers for the Union Pacific Railroad came from what country?

Ireland

Italy

Russia

Africa

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following was NOT a state that the railroad passed through?

Utah

California

Oregon

Nebraska

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

To make China more powerful.

To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.

To make Native Americans move off their land.

To give immigrants a job, to feel important, and needed in America.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which president was in office that allowed the Transcontinental Railroad to be built?

Donald Trump

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Theodore Roosevelt

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In what town did the Union Pacific Railroad begin?

Omaha, Nebraska

Promontory, Utah

Topeka, Kansas

Des Moines, Iowa

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