Studies Weekly Week 26

What might happen to the price of cars if the supply is too high?

• The price will go up

• The price will go down

• the price won't change

• The cars will be given away for free

Why were railroads important to early Texas businesses?

• clearing the land for train tracks allowed farms to grow

• lots of people got jobs as train engineers

• trains allowed people and goods to travel easily

• trains and railroads were extremely cheap to build

Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Steam Texas into the Future."

What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

• how scary the train looked

• why Deborah felt excited today

• how long it had been since Deborah saw her grandparents

• why Deborah liked to be excited

Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Steam Texas into the Future."

What will Deborah probably do when she gets to her grandparents' house?

• ask her mother to get stagecoach tickets home

• complain about how long the trip was

• get back on the train to return home at once

• tell everyone all about her train trip

Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Steam Texas into the Future."

Why had it been such a long time since Deborah had seen her grandparents?

• The journey to visit her grandparents was long and dangerous.

• Daddy did not like to visit with relatives.

• Deborah's sister was too young to make the trip.

• Deborah's family didn't know exactly how to get to her grandparents' house.

Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Bring 'Boom' to Texas."

Why were railroads needed in Texas in the 1800s?

• The roads were not big enough for all the wagons in the state.

• There were problems with other transportation methods.

• It was too hot to travel any other way.

• There were no other methods of transportation at this time.

Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Bring 'Boom' to Texas."

In paragraph 1 of the section called "The Boom Begins," what does the word boom mean?

• time when railroad tracks are being laid

• new people in an area

• period of sudden growth

• change in culture

Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Bring 'Boom' to Texas."

Why are many Texas towns about 30 miles apart today?

• Early businesses were only allowed to operate 30 miles apart.

• The law required junctions to be 30 miles apart.

• Early towns were established so locomotive passengers could stop for food.

• Early communities sprang up where locomotives stopped for water.

Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Bring 'Boom' to Texas."

The reader can tell that—

• there are no longer any railroad towns left in Texas

• there are many railroad towns still growing today

• railroad towns were only used for water stops

• new towns today are never placed 30 miles apart

Answer this question after reading the article "Chinese Immigrants—Building the Railroad Legacy."

From what the reader learns about immigrants from China, which of the following would a Chinese immigrant probably do?

• agree to work for a long time in exchange for a small amount of pay

• never celebrate the culture and customs from their homeland again

• disagree with railroad bosses about living conditions

• go immediately back to China