Mining and the Transcontinental Railroad

Most of the gold was found:

• Underground lodes

• On the surface

• In a river

• On the mountain

In 1858, a mining expedition found gold where in Colorado?

• Sutters Mill

• Rocky Mountains

• Pikes Peak

• Comstock Lode

What were Boomtowns?

• Major cities in the West

• Towns that grew up almost overnight

• Towns that were not successful

• Towns established by the railroads

What was a Ghost town?

• Boomtowns that were abandoned

• Towns that had lots of ghosts

• Towns established by settlers and attacked by Indians

• A town that was successful

The word Vigilante means:

• People who didn't obey the law

• People who obeyed the law

• People who kept a lookout for Indian attacks

• People who took the law into their own hands

Henry Comstock discovered _______ ore at the Comstock Lode, NV.

• Zinc

• Silver

• Gold

• Coal

What is a subsides?

• Financial aid and land grants from the government

• Those who were hired to create the railroads

• People who transported mined goods East

• A treaty of land that was purchased

In 1883, the railroad companies divided the country into how many time zones?

• one

• two

• three

• four

The two sets of tracks met in ______________ to complete the transcontinental railroad.

• Promontory Point, Utah

• Pikes Peak, Colorado

• Sacramento, California

• Omaha, Nebraska

Who did the Pacific Union rely on to help build the railroad?

• Indians

• French and Irish

• Irish and African Americans

• Chinese