Transcontinental Railroad Notes

Multiple Choice

The act gave 160 acres of public land to adult men 21 years of age, widows, or heads of a family.  All settlers had to do was pay a small fee of $1.25 an acre, farm the land, and live on it for five years.

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Pacific Railroad Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

Multiple Choice

The Transcontinental Railroad is

• A railroad that crosses an entire continent.

• A railroad that crosses from Texas to Canada

• A railroad that connects the entire world

Multiple Choice

Manifest Destiny is the belief that

• American settlers were destined to expand across the westward nation

• Americans should build a railroad to connect the east to the west

1862 law offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the transcontinental railroad.

​The Pacific Railroad Act

​This led to a competition between two railroad companies - the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific

Multiple Choice

1862 law offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the transcontinental railroad.

• Pacific Railroad Act

• Homestead Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

Multiple Choice

Which company started in Omaha, Nebraska and headed westward?

• Union Pacific

• Central Pacific

Multiple Choice

Who did the Union Pacific hire to build the railroad?

• Chinese Immigrants

• Irish Immigrants

Multiple Choice

Which company started in Sacramento, California and headed eastward?

• Union Pacific

• Central Pacific

Multiple Choice

Who did the Central Pacific hire to build the railroad?

• Chinese Immigrants

• Irish Immigrants

Multiple Choice

The place in Utah where the first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed.  Where the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific tracks met, a golden spike was hammered in.

• Promontory Point, Utah

• San Fransisco, California

• Missouri River

• Omaha, Nebraska

Multiple Choice

Which one is NOT a reason for why no one was willing to build a railroad past the Mississippi River?

• Indians

• Tough Terrain

• Fear of the Unknown

• Rush for Gold