Riding the Rails West Vocab and Comprehension

What does the word descendants mean?

• someone who shares similar ideas

• someone who is born in the same city

• someone who shares similar occupations

• someone who is related to a person who lived in the past

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Which of the following is NOT an example of a vehicle?

• a carriage

• a cart

• a wagon

• a wheel

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

What does agreeable mean?

• improve

• unused

• remind

• pleasant

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

What does the word appreciate mean?

• to dislike something

• to laugh at something

• to refuse something

• grateful for something

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

What are pioneers?

• the last person to leave a place

• the first person to settle in a place

• the richest people in a new land

• the oldest people in a new land

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which of the following is an example of transportation?

• car

• store

• ticket

• umbrella

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

Which word means the SAME AS boomed?

• grew

• identified

• named

• threw

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

What does the word emigration mean?

• to move from the city to the country

• to leave a country to live in another

• to discover a new land

• to visit a new country

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

What town in California was the railroad built in?

• Atwater
• San Francisco
• Sacramento
• Omaha

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

What caused people to move to California in 1849?

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5