Transcontinental Railroad, Homestead Act, American Indians S

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.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What caused Native Americans to attack the railroad and its workers?

• The railroad was built in the middle of their land and was destroying it.

• The workers started fighting with them.

• The railroad kept them from migrating.

• Native Americans didn't like trains.

The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific companies hired workers from _________ and _________ to build their railroads.

• Japan and Germany

• China and Ireland

• China and Germany

• Ireland and Japan

What are Boom Towns?

• Towns that popped up along the railroads.

• Towns that exploded.

• Towns where people moved away from because there weren't any jobs left.

• Towns with a lot of gold.

What was a challenge the Central Pacific workers faced while building the Transcontinental Railroad?

• floods

• mountains

• blizzards

• hurricanes

What does transcontinental mean?

• to travel across a continent

• to travel from one continent to another continent

• to travel north and south

• to travel to transport goods

The Transcontinental Railroad connected the __________________________.

• north and south

• east and west

• north and west

• east and south

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What was the Act that gave pioneers a way to buy land?

• The Homebound Act

• The Homeward Bound Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Home Sick Act

The _________ was the law that allowed settlers to live on land for 5 years and get it for basically nothing. 

• Removal Act
• Homestead Act
• Bill of Rights

What brought the biggest, most important changes to the west?

• transcontinental wagon roads
• transcontinental railroad
• transcontinental gravel road
• pony express