Transcontinental Railroad

Who provided the difficult labor to build the railroad for the Central Pacific Railroad?

• People from Ireland

• People from Europe

• People from China

• People from Australia

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

• Omaha, Nebraska

• Promontory, Utah

• Grand Junction, Colorado

• Sacramento, California

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

• bulldozers

• steam shovels

• cranes

• none of the above

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

• six years

• four years

• six months

• three months

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

• Italian

• Chinese

• Polish

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

• Midwestern

• Great Californian

• Western Union

• Union Pacific

What 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.”?

• Charles Crocker

• Leland Stanford

• Theordore Judah

• Collis Huntington

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