What was America's most important means of transportation by the time of the Civil War?
US History II Chapter 20, Sec 20.1-20.4 Test

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Railroad
Car
Bicycle
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Name the two railroad companies commissioned to build the first transcontinental railroad.
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Western Pacific and Central Pacific
Western Union Company and Bell South
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What was the battle at which Colonel George Custer's forces clashed with nearly 4,000 well-armed Sioux warriors led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull? Custer and 250 men died here.
Battle of Little Big Horn
Battle of Wounded Knee
Treaty of Washington
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Who developed new flour milling processes to establish the largest flour mills in the world in Minneapolis?
James J. Hill
Charles Alfred Pillsbury
Franny Crosby
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Who was the Canadian-American promoter of the line?
Andrew Carnegie
James J. Hill
Cornelius Vanderbilt
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What company dominated the telegraph network?
Western Union Company
AT&T
Transcontinental Railroad Company
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What was the 1890 massacre that left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux?
Battle of Wounded Knee
Fort in Wyoming
Battle at Little Big Horn
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