Transcontinental Railroad

🚂 Choo Choo! All aboard the history express! Can you guess the main treasure chest that funded the mighty Transcontinental Railroad's construction?

• Private investments

• State funding

• Federal government grants and loans

• International loans

Many settlers were interested in moving west to become farmers due to the ___________ Act.

• Homestead

• Dawes

• Hatch

• Sherman

President who approved funding for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, the creation of standard time/ time zones, and the width (gauge) of all railroad tracks

• James K Polk

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• James Garfield

Identify the location most associated with the following:

• Nebraska

• Union Pacific Railroad (start point)

• California

• Pullman Company Headquarters (luxury train cars)

• Utah

• Central Pacific Railroad (start point)

• Illinois

• Promontory Point

Date of completion of the Transcontinental Railroad (when the two lines finally met in the middle)

• 1865

• 1869

• 1872

• 1896

Match the demographic group most employed by each

• Irish Immigrants and Civil War veterans

• Central Pacific Railroad (construction)

• Chinese immigrants

• Union Pacific Railroad (construction)

• African Americans

• Pullman Company

  (luxury train car porters)

How did the railroad foster economic growth in the development of the west?

• by providing sharecroppers a means of travel
• by providing farmers with the means of getting their crops to market
• by providing Native Americans a means to sell fur
• by providing the bison a place to roam freely

The biggest GEOGRAPHIC barrier to the Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad was

• The Great Plains

• The Great Salt Lake

• The Rocky Mountains

• The Sierra Nevada Mountains

This act was passed to limit the amount of Chinese workers entering the United States due to rising Nativist attitudes, (after the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad) .

• The Dawes Act

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Alien Act

• The Anti-Chinese Wall Act

New advances in science/ technology that aided in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad

• Solar powered machinery

• Nuclear energy

• Gunpowder

• Nitroglycerin