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WorksheetsStudies Weekly Week 26
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What might happen to the price of cars if the supply is too high?
The price will go up
The price will go down
the price won't change
The cars will be given away for free
Why were railroads important to early Texas businesses?
clearing the land for train tracks allowed farms to grow
lots of people got jobs as train engineers
trains allowed people and goods to travel easily
trains and railroads were extremely cheap to build
Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Steam Texas into the Future."
What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
how scary the train looked
why Deborah felt excited today
how long it had been since Deborah saw her grandparents
why Deborah liked to be excited
Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Steam Texas into the Future."
What will Deborah probably do when she gets to her grandparents' house?
ask her mother to get stagecoach tickets home
complain about how long the trip was
get back on the train to return home at once
tell everyone all about her train trip
Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Steam Texas into the Future."
Why had it been such a long time since Deborah had seen her grandparents?
The journey to visit her grandparents was long and dangerous.
Daddy did not like to visit with relatives.
Deborah's sister was too young to make the trip.
Deborah's family didn't know exactly how to get to her grandparents' house.
Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Bring 'Boom' to Texas."
Why were railroads needed in Texas in the 1800s?
The roads were not big enough for all the wagons in the state.
There were problems with other transportation methods.
It was too hot to travel any other way.
There were no other methods of transportation at this time.
Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Bring 'Boom' to Texas."
In paragraph 1 of the section called "The Boom Begins," what does the word boom mean?
time when railroad tracks are being laid
new people in an area
period of sudden growth
change in culture
Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Bring 'Boom' to Texas."
Why are many Texas towns about 30 miles apart today?
Early businesses were only allowed to operate 30 miles apart.
The law required junctions to be 30 miles apart.
Early towns were established so locomotive passengers could stop for food.
Early communities sprang up where locomotives stopped for water.
Answer this question after reading the article "Railroads Bring 'Boom' to Texas."
The reader can tell that—
there are no longer any railroad towns left in Texas
there are many railroad towns still growing today
railroad towns were only used for water stops
new towns today are never placed 30 miles apart
Answer this question after reading the article "Chinese Immigrants—Building the Railroad Legacy."
From what the reader learns about immigrants from China, which of the following would a Chinese immigrant probably do?
agree to work for a long time in exchange for a small amount of pay
never celebrate the culture and customs from their homeland again
disagree with railroad bosses about living conditions
go immediately back to China
Use the graph to answer the following question.
In 1900, about how many more people lived in Dallas than San Antonio?
10,000 people
20,000 people
30,000 people
40,000 people
Use the graph to answer the following question.
This chart shows how the population of several Texas cities changed from 1870 to 1900.
Which city's population grew by just over 40,000 from 1870 to 1900?
Dallas
San Antonio
Fort Worth
El Paso
