History Review- Week 29 - The Transcontinental Railroad

The two original railroad companies that helped build the transcontinental railroad were Central Pacific and _______________ .

• Western Union

• Union Pacific

• Midwestern

• Great Californian

This man pictured here was determined there would be a transcontinental railroad, and he told his wife, “It will be built, and I am going to have something to do with it.

• Theodore Judah

• Leland Stanford

• Charles Crocker

• Collis Huntington

The Central Pacific Company could only find 800 American workers interested in helping build the new transcontinental railroad, so they hired __________________ immigrants to fulfill their workforce needs.

• Irish

• Chinese

• Italian

• Polish

At the Wedding of the Rails, locomotives came together to represent the meeting of the East and West in a ceremony at _______________________.

• Sacramento, California

• Grand Junction, Colorado

• Promontory, Utah

• Omaha, Nebraska

From the first shovel of dirt to the meeting of the locomotives at Promontory, how long did it take to build the transcontinental railroad?

• three months

• six months

• four years

• 6 years

Chinese immigrants were not the only group to be employed by the railroad to help build the transcontinental railroad. What other group helped the Union Pacific Company build their portion of the track?

• American Indians

• Mexican immigrants

• Canadian fur trappers

• Irish immigrants

Despite their hard work on the transcontinental railroad, Chinese immigrants _____________________.

• were treated badly in America, especially California

• were never paid for the work they completed

• were viewed as weak and lazy

• were given promotions and eventually became owners of the rail companies

Immigrants working on the railroad used ___________________ to construct the track.

• bulldozers

• steam shovels

• cranes

• none of the above, because they used their hands

What kinds of hazards or dangerous conditions did railroad workers experience as they were building the transcontinental railroad? Click/choose all that apply.

• Extreme heat and harsh winters

• Fingers, hands, and even death would happen from explosives

• Railroad workers would use bulldozers

• Railroad workers would hang high in baskets 1,500 feet in the air

• American Indians would attack the Union Pacific railroad workers because they laid track in their territory