Transcontinental Railroad and Immigration

During the late 1800s, what caused physical and cultural landscape changes in the United States?

• The Dust Storms

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The invention of the mechanical reaper

• The building of highways

What was the name of the two railroad companies who were given the job of building a transcontinental railroad?

• Mississippi River and Hudson Valley Railroad Company

• Sacramento and Omaha Railroad Company

• Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad Company

• Union Pacific and Promontory Point Railroad Company

The Transcontinental Railroad took ___ years to build.

• 10

• 6

• 7

• 15

The railroad was built east from California by

• Freedman

• The Union Pacific

• Scalawags

• Central Pacific

By the late 1860s, there were about 16 million buffalo on the Plains. Within 20 years, they had decreased to

• less than 1,000

• less than 10,000

• less than 100,000

• less than 1,000,000

Chinese immigrants worked mainly on the

• Central Pacific Railroad

• Plantations

• Union Pacific Railroad

• Farms and ranches

The Pacific Railway Act

• gave land to RR companies to encourage them to build and finance the Transcontinental Railroad

• Moved Native Americans to new homes so the railroads could be built

• Gave free land to homesteaders

• Helped pioneers kill the buffalo on their land

The ___ built west from Nebraska and employed mostly immigrants, former slaves, and former Confederate soldiers?

• Central Pacific Railroad

• Plantation owners

• Union Pacific Railroad

• Pony Express

The railroad had a negative impact on the environment due to

• tracks crossed the plains and tunnels through the mountains

• coil-burning machines required fuel and more fuel required an increase in

• SMOKE from factories and WASTE from processing plants polluted the Earth

• All of the above

Herds of buffalo were killed because

• Railroad companies wanted to starve the Native Americans

• People in the east wanted buffalo meat

• The buffalo trampled the railroad tracks and damaged them

• The Native Americans had too many buffalo