WorksheetsTranscontinental Railroad
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Who invented TNT, dynamite?
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Buffalo Bill Cody
Alfred Nobel
Who were the workers hired by the Central Pacific Railroad company?
Chinese immigrants
Irish immigrants
former Civil War soldiers
Italian immigrants
What was the company that started building the railroad from California?
Union Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Central Pacific
Polar Express
What company began building from Omaha, Nebraska?
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
Mountain Central
Where did the government get the land to build the railroad?
purchased from the Russians
a treaty with Sioux and other Native people
fought a war with Italy and took the land
won it playing the lottery
Which group did NOT build the Union Pacific Railroad?
former enslaved people
ex-Civil War soldiers
Irish immigrants
Chinese immigrants
Who was a famous hunter providing food for the railroad workers
Wild Bill Hickock
Calamity Jane
Sitting Bull
Buffalo Bill Cody
Why was it a good idea to build a railroad across the USA?
people were already moving west
the Sioux would be a partner and get rich too
if the USA did not build it, Canada would
The USA had extra money to spend
About how long was the Transcontinental Railroad?
100 miles
1000 miles
1500 miles
2000 miles
Which one is not a danger of building the railroad?
flooded rivers
attacks by the Sioux
starvation, nothing to eat
winter storms and tornados
Where did the two railroads meet and complete the project?
Promontory, Utah
Tombstone, Arizona
Chicago, Illinois
Omaha, Nebraska
What object was used in the ceremony to complete the railroad?
a silver pickaxe
a golden buffalo horn
a golden spike
a platinum nose ring
What was a negative effect of the building of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Railroad tycoons became very wealthy
people had jobs
the buffalo disappeared and the Sioux starved
it became easier to travel to the west.
