Homework Check 3.2

Match each prompt with the correct person.

• Oakes Ames

• chief engineer on the Union Pacific Railroad

• Grenville Dodge

• notoriously corrupt railroad owner

• Leland Stanford

• made a fortune from the Central Pacific Railroad

• Jay Gould

• implicated in the Credit Mobilier scandal

• James J. Hill

• built the Great Northern Railroad

The government offered each railroad company building the Transcontinental Railroad ________________ along its right-of-way.

• free housing

• railroad stations

• natural resources

• land

A shortage of workers in California forced the Central Pacific Railroad to hire about 10,000 workers from

• China

• Mexico

• Ireland

• Japan

To build their railroads, railroad companies raised most of the money they needed form

• subsidies from tax revenue.

• private investors.

• hauling freight to market.

• selling government land grants.

The two railroad corporations that built the transcontinental railroad were the

• Southern Railway and Great Northern.

• Southern Railway and Union Pacific.

• Union Pacific and Great Northern.

• Union Pacific and Central Pacific.

To make rail service more reliable, in 1883 the American Railway Association

• set standards for materials used in the construction of railroad lines.

• divided the country into standardized time zones.

• drew latitude and longitude lines for the country.

• set a maximum number of cars that a train could pull.