
Transcontinental Railroad
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5th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 5 pts
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
3 mins • 5 pts
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
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
__________ 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
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
People who moved west because of economic opportunities and the possibility of free land.
homesteaders
immigration
urbanization
frontier
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Moving to a different country permanently.
migration
immigration
homesteaders
rural
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Movement from one place to another place within a country.
migration
immigration
frontier
urban
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
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
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