WorksheetsAmerica Story of US Heartland
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?
To make China more powerful.
To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.
To make Native Americans move off their land.
To give immigrants a job, to feel important, and needed in America.
In what town did the Union Pacific Railroad begin?
Omaha, Nebraska
Promontory, Utah
Topeka, Kansas
Des Moines, Iowa
In what town did the Central Pacific Railroad start?
Promontory, Utah
Houston, Texas
Sacramento, California
New York City, New York
In what town did both parts of the railroad met?
Omaha, Nebraska
Houston, Texas
Sacramento, California
Promontory, Utah
What caused Native Americans to attack the railroad and its workers?
The railroad was built in the middle of their land and was destroying it.
The workers started fighting with them.
The railroad kept them from migrating.
Native Americans didn't like trains.
Which president was in office that allowed the Transcontinental Railroad to be built?
Donald Trump
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific companies hired workers from _________ and _________ to build their railroads.
Japan and Germany
China and Ireland
China and Germany
Ireland and Japan
What was a challenge the Central Pacific workers faced while building the Transcontinental Railroad?
floods
mountains
blizzards
hurricanes
Indian force?
During the mid 1800s, how did the federal government encourage the settlement of the West?
provide forty acres of land and a mule to formerly enslaved persons
provide free land to people who would create a home there
provide mining claims for prospectors seeking gold and silver
provide land to companies to build transcontinental railroads
In the late 1800s, what was the goal of the federal government’s policy toward
Native Americans?
to stop racial discrimination
to encourage Native Americans to vote
to help them become productive citizens in society
to make them assimilate, so taking their land would be easier
Who was the first person to really capitalize on using the railroad to deliver products to costumers across the country?
Sears
JC Penny
Sam Walton
Jeff Bezos
