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WorksheetsTranscontinental Railroad Study Practice
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 10mins
Match the following
Chinese Immigrants
Central Pacific Railroad
Irish Immigrants
Union Pacific Railroad
160 acres of free land to farm
Homestead Act
Split up Indian property/reservations into individual areas
The Dawes Act
What two companies worked on the Transcontinental Railroad?
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Union Pacific and Urban Pacific
Central Pacific and Railroad Pacific
The Transcontinental Railroad went through the ______ ______ Mountains.
(a)
What hypothesis can you make about the family in the picture?
They are eastern factory workers enjoying the day off.
The settled west as part of the Homestead Act of 1862.
They were German immigrants that farmed land in the east.
How did the railroad affect the lives of Native Americans?
It decreased their isolation from American culture.
It provided jobs for Native Americans so they could most off reservations.
It decreased the buffalo population that Native Americans depended upon.
It provided them access to markets for the goods they produced.
Railroads helped farmers by transporting their product to (a) .
Faced dangerous explosives, disease, starvation, and paid less than the Irish.
Chinese worker experience
Way of life was ruined because the buffalo were killed, and were forced to undergo assimilation.
Native American experience
Promontory Summit, Utah
Where the two railroad companies met to complete the railroad
1869
Year the railroad was completed
After the completion of the railroad there were many changes to the land. Choose two examples of how the railroad negatively impacted the land and the environment.
Cities decreased in size
Pollution of the air and water
Land was kept the way they found it
Buffalo were killed to near extinction
Immigration increased
Which of the following was negatively impacted by the completion of the railroad?
Communication
Native American life
Economic opportunities
Transportation
In 1865, around 15 million buffalo roamed the plains. In 1889, fewer than 1,000 buffalo were left in the United States. How did the American Indians react?
They were angered; buffalo were a resource and they used the entire animal for lots of different things.
They didn't worry about it; American settlers did not hunt the buffalo.
American Indians felt the buffalo were not important.
They were resourceful; they began hunting moose instead.
How did the growth of the railroads affect the geographic expansion of the United States?
People and goods could move west more easily.
People traveled to the east coast to work in factories.
Explorers could go west of the Mississippi River for the first time.
Pioneers had easier access to the lands of Canada and Mexico.
How did what is shown in the image affect the United States?
Ranchers had limited ways to get cattle to large cities.
Jobs were created and it became easier to send raw materials east by train.
Large numbers of people rushed to North Dakota in search of gold.
More immigrants came to America to work as ranchers.
