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.

• To make Native Americans move off their land.

• To give immigrants a job, to feel important, and needed in America.

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

__________ and _____________ were the two companies hired to build the railroad.

• Homestead, Pacific Railway

• Union Pacific, Central Pacific

• Atlantic Union, Pacific Union

• Promotory Summit, Ulysses S. Grant

People who moved west because of economic opportunities and the possibility of free land.

• homesteaders

• immigration

• urbanization

• frontier

Moving to a different country permanently.

• migration

• immigration

• homesteaders

• rural

Movement from one place to another place within a country.

• migration

• immigration

• frontier

• urban

The belief that it was Americans' right to control all of the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean was called

• Union Pacific

• Central Pacific

• Manifest Destiny

• Promotory Summit

The Central Pacific had to lay tracks around the

• Pacific Ocean

• Mississippi River

• Appalachian mountains

• Sierra Nevada mountains

In what town did the Central Pacific Railroad start?

• Promontory, Utah

• Houston, Texas

• Sacramento, California

• New York City, New York

What conflicts did the Union Pacific workers face?

• Crossing the Colorado River

• Lack of electricity

• Conflicts with the Native American tribes

• Crossing the Appalachian Mountains