Transcontinental Railroad

Railroad owners wanted more people to settle on the Great Plains because...

• farmers would use the railroads to ship products to markets in the cities
• they needed more people to build railroad tracks
• they needed sharecroppers to farm the land owned by the railroads
• settlers would grow cotton and ship it to the south

Which innovation was used to send news of the TRR completion across the country?

• transcontinental railroad
• pony express
• telegraph
• stagecoach

The first railroad to cross the United States was the....

• Union Pacific Railroad
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Missouri Railroad
• Transcontinental Railroad

What caused the Native Americans to attack the railroad and its workers?

• The railroads scared away the buffalo.
• The railroad destroyed their land.
• The railroad were built in the middle of their reservations.
• The railroad prevented them from migrating.

Why was the transcontinental railroad beneficial to America?

• The railroad was built over mountains that were impassable in stagecoach.
• Railroads provided a faster, safer, and cheaper transportation.
• Railroads allowed People to bring their furniture to the Great Plains.
• Railroads crossed rivers which were difficult to cross earlier.

Where did the Central Pacific Railroad build?

• Omaha, Nebraska to the west, over the plains
• Sacramento, California to the east, over the mountains
• Missouri to California
• over the Mississippi River

How did the Transcontinental Railroad impact the natural environment?

• the trained ripped up the sod on the plains
• mining for coal, pollution, and blasting through mountains impacted the environment.
• mining for gold, building large trestles, and avalanches impacted the environment
• shipping crops East and fencing off farm land impacted the environment

What town did the Union Pacific Railroad start in?

• Omaha, NE
• Promontory, UT
• Sacramento, CA
• New York, NY

Where did the two parts of the TRR meet?

• Promontory, UT
• New York, NY
• San Francisco, CA
• Omaha, NE

Which group lost the most from the building of the railroads?

• Settlers
• Western citizens
• The government
• Native Americans