Westward Expansion

What workers were discriminated against when building the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Irish immigrant

• Chinese immigrant

• Civil War Veterans

• Polish immigrants

What two ethnic groups helped to build the transcontinental railroad?

• Mexican Americans and Native Americans
• Irish immigrants and Chinese immigrants
• African Americans and European immigrants
• Scottish immigrants and Japanese immigrants 

The Transcontinental Railroad connected the __________________________.

• north and south

• east and west

• north and west

• east and south

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The ______________________________ company began building the railroad in Nebraska.

• Union Pacific

• Central Pacific

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CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

The __________________________ company began building the railroad in California.

• Central Pacific

• Union Pacific

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The two railroads met in __________________________________.

• Promontory, Utah

• Las Vegas, Nevada

• San Francisco, California

• Denver, Colorado

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CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

A town whose population grows very quickly is called a ____________.

• Pop town
• Fast  town
• Boomtown

What was the name given to the mining towns after the people left?

• James Towns
• Gold Towns
• Ghost towns

____________________ are pieces of land set aside for Native Americans by the government.

• Reservations

• Homesteads

• Hotels

• Acres

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

New settlers hunted ____________ to near extinction.

• deer

• horses

• buffaloes

• turkeys