
Transcontinental Railroad
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9th - 11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?
To make China more powerful.
To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.
To make Native Americans move off their land.
To give immigrants a job, to feel important, and needed in America.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
By linking the nation, railroads helped increase the size of markets, providing greater opportunity for many
industries.
cities.
Native Americans.
insider traders.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific companies hired workers from ______ and _______ to build their railroads.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Railroads needed to hire workers from other countries because _______
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
After the Civil War, the nation became more linked with the building of the
Erie Canal
Transcontinental Canal
Transcontinental Railroad
Hoover Dam
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of these is NOT a reason the Transcontinental Railroad was built?
To make travel and communication easier from east to west
To wipe out the Indians of the plains
To increase settlement of the West
To boost the economic production of the West
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The ______ of 1862 gave land to any settlers willing to move west.
Dawes Act
Homestead Act
Volstead Act
Agricultural Freedom Act
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