3.5 Riding the Rails West

What caused people to move to California in 1849?

• discovery of gold
• bad weather
• factories were closing
• sickness

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

What town in California was the railroad built in?

• Atwater
• San Francisco
• Sacramento
• Omaha

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CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.3

What town in Nebraska was the railroad built in?

• Sacramento
• Omaha
• Lincoln
• Atwater

If something increases quickly it...

• booms
• poineers
• transports
• runs the mile

If you move away from your home to a new place you...

• are sad
• emigrate
• pioneer
• agreeable

If you are the first to explore or settle a new region you are a...

• spaceman
• pioneer
• descendant
• cheetah

Which immigrants helped build the railroad? 

• Chinese
• Mexicans
• Russians
• Native Americans