Studies Weekly: Week 29- The Transcontinental Railroad

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

This man 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 two original railroad companies that helped build the transcontinental railroad were Central Pacific and _____________________.

• Western Union

• Union Pacific

• Central Union

• Pacific Californian

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

• were treated poorly in America, especially in 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

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

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

• 3 months

• 6 months

• 3 years

• 6 years

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

• bulldozers

• steam shovels

• cranes

• none of these choices are correct

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

• Omaha, Nebraska

• Grand Junction, Colorado

• Sacramento, California

• Promontory, Utah