WorksheetsTranscontinental Railroad
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 32mins
What was the 2nd type of communication, which took 10 days, and used horses?
Pony Express
Overland Mail Express
Transcontinental Railroad
FedEx
Telegraph
What type of communication took 24 days, and began in 1857?
Overland Mail Company
Pony Express
Transcontinental Railroad
Telegraph
Who did California want to communicate with?
Western U.S.
China
Canada
Europe
Eastern U.S.
What was the 3rd type of communication that took only a few minutes?
Telegraph
Overland Mail Company
Pony Express
Transcontinental Railroad
Postmates
Which railroad company hired mostly Irish immigrant and Civil War soldiers?
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Which railroad company used mostly Chinese immigrant workers?
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
What was NOT a challenge of building the railroad?
They had to work fast in dangerous conditions
They had to blast tunnels through the Sierra Nevadas
There were few workers because of the Civil War in the U.S.
The people did not want the railroad to be built.
What was the name of the wheat farmer in the Central Valley, who was the #1 wheat farmer in the world?
John Bidwell
Theodore Judah
Samuel Morse
Leland Stanford
What was the name of the herbalist who came to California looking for gold?
Yee Fung Cheung
Robert E. Lee
Leland Stanford
Benjamin Franklin
Which man was one of the Big Four?
Leland Stanford
Theodore Judah
John Butterfield
Luther Burbank
What was Luther Burbank known for?
He was a scientist who developed new and better plants.
He hammered in the golden spike.
He was one of the Big Four.
He discovered electricity.
Who planned and engineered the transcontinental railroad?
Theodore Judah
Mark Hopkins
Collis P. Huntington
Charles Crocker
What is John Butterfield remembered for?
He contributed to growth in CA because of the stagecoach that carried mail.
He discovered the first pieces of gold.
He engineered the railroad.
He financed the transcontinental railroad.
What was the name of the place where violence occurred between the farmers and railroad company because of their disagreement over the price of land?
Mussel Slough
Promontory, UT
Council Bluffs, IA
Sacramento, CA
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Who was the "Big Four"?
The group who owned the Central Pacific R.R.
The four men who built the railroad.
Farmers who built canals to irrigate their crops.
A group of herbalists who developed healing medicines.
Why was it hard to find American workers to build the transcontinental railroad?
The Civil War was happening at the same time.
The pay was too low.
Everyone already had jobs.
Not many people were skilled laborers, so they did not know how to build a railroad.
