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Transcontinental Railroad

Authored by Sarah Almachraki

Social Studies

4th - 5th Grade

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Transcontinental Railroad
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

What invention put the Pony Express out of business?

the telegraph

the Butterfield Stage line

the transcontinental railroad

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which side did California support in the Civil War?

The Union

the Confederacy

the Chinese

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which mountain range did Theodore Judah and Daniel Strong survey?

the Sierra Nevada

the Appalachian

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Whose letters have given us valuable information about Theodore Judah?

the Big Four

Anna Judah

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What were the two main problems that Thodore Judah had to solve to build the transcontinental railroad?

demand and supply

money and geography

geography and opposition

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Why didn’t Theodore Judah see the transcontinental railroad completed?

He moved to another country

He died from Yellow Fever

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Why did many men on the railroad work crews leave soon after work had begun?

the work was too hard

they went to go mine silver in Nevada instead

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