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SS 1. Movement - Western Expansion

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Social Studies

3rd - 8th Grade

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SS 1. Movement - Western Expansion
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A person who starts a business hoping to make a profit

entrepreneur
forty-niner
prospector
sodbuster

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A trainroute across the United States completed in 1869

intercontinental railroad
NorthAmerican railroad
transcontinental railroad
US railroad

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A region in which onestandard of time is used

day division
sunlight section
time share
time zone

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The man who created the first pair of jeans

Buffalo Bill
Calvin Klein
Levi Straus
Joseph Wrangler

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The place where the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad met when completed

Omaha
Promontory Summit
Salt Lake City
Sacramento

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Chinese were often paid lower wages for their work on the railroad.  What can you infer? 

The Chinese asked to be paid less.
The quality of the work done by the Chinese was inferior. 
The Chinese did not work as fast as the European immigrants.
Chinese were discriminated against because of their culture. 

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A law that offered loans and land to companies that would build the transcontinental railroad

American Amtrak Act
Homestead Act
Pacific Railroad Act
Transportation Act of 1860

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