The Transcontinental Railroad

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• To make China more powerful.

• To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.

In what town did the Central Pacific Railroad start?

• Promontory, Utah

• Sacramento, California

In what town did the Union Pacific Railroad begin?

• Omaha, Nebraska

• Promontory, Utah

In what town did both parts of the railroad met?

• Omaha, Nebraska

• Promontory, Utah

Which innovation (invention) was used to send news that the Transcontinental Railroad was DONE?

• telegraph

• Liberty Bell

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

• Japan and Germany

• China and Ireland

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

• floods

• mountains

What does transcontinental mean?

• to travel across a continent

• to travel from one continent to another continent

The Transcontinental Railroad connected the __________________________.

• north and south

• east and west