Chapter 5 Railroads, Immigration, Gold, Growth

What was the biggest thing that helped the west, including Washington, grow and prosper? 

• deep water shipping harbors
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• the massive amount of lumber
• transcontinental railroads

A railroad that stretches all the way across the continent is called

• continental
• transpire
• transcontinental
• corruption

How did the railroads get the massive amount of land needed to lay their tracks? 

• They bought the land from the government.
• They were given the land (for free) by the government.
• They just built the land, not caring who owned it.
• They traded gold claims for the land.

Who built our railroads, but were paid less although they did the most dangerous work? 

• Immigrants, especially Chinese and Irish
• Immigrants, especially Mexican and British
• Children, especially orphans
• Out-of-work urban migrants, especially displaced factory workers

Railroads were given land FOR FREE by the federal government.  Such free gifts of land are called

• land loans
• corruption
• golden land
• land grants

Is there still a train depot in Seattle that was built around the time the transcontinental railroad arrived? 

• Yes, King Street station is still there, and still used by people leaving from and coming to Seattle
• No, both train depots built during those times were destroyed in the Great Seattle Fire, and never rebuilt

Railroads and ____ were mutually beneficial (helped each other grow and get rich).

• lumber
• whaling
• gold
• farming

A lumber company that helped the railroads, helped Washington prosper, and is still around today... 

• Boeing
• Klondike
• Pacific Coast Codfish Company
• Weyerhaeuser

Washington cities experience super-fast urbanization from 1880-1910.  Urbanization means

• transformation into being more like a big city instead of small town
• transformation to being more dependent on gold income instead of lumber

Walla Walla used to be the big city in Washington, but the arrival of the _____ helped Spokane, Tacoma, and then Seattle boom.

• backlash
• sawmills
• Immigration quotas
• transcontinental railroads