Railroads Cowboys and Ranchers

1. In the early 1800s the only way to get a message or news from one place to another was to ___________.

• go there
• fly there
• send an email
• text message

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2. In 1844 a new kind of communication was invented using a machine that could send electric signals through wires to distant places in minutes. This was called?

• email
• telephone
• telegraph
• text message

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3. Many Americans began moving west by the 1840s.They were looking for _____________.

• buffalo
• prejudice
• gold and for farmland
• cattle and wheat

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4. In 1862 two railroad companies got money and land from Congress to build a transcontinental railroad to connect the coasts. What were the names of the companies?

• Union Pacific and Central Pacific
• Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific
• Union Atlantic and Central Pacific
• Western Pacific and Eastern Pacific

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5. On May 10, 1869 the transcontinental railroad was completed. The two tracks met at _________________, Utah close to the Great Salt Lake.

• Gold Rush
• Promontory Point
• Abilene
• Kansas City

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6. The __________________ stretched from one edge of the United States to the other.

• Chisholm Trail
• Great Western cattle Trail
• Kansas Pacific railroad
• transcontinental railroad

7. ________________ invented the code for sending messages using electric signals over wire telegraph lines.

• Bill Picket
• Samuel Morse
• Joseph McCoy
• Nat Love

8. The Kansas pacific Railroad helped western farmers to make money by shipping cattle and wheat to the east.

• True
• False

9. Some workers were paid less than other workers and given the most dangerous jobs. This type of unfair treatment is called _______________

• demand
• prejudice
• supply
• Exodusters

10. Although racial discrimination still existed, the Black Cowboys were treated much better on the cattle trails.

• True
• False