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WorksheetsAmerica, the story of Us: Heartland
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 51mins
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
What happened to half the population of western Nebraska by 1892?
They moved to North Dakota
They died
They went back east.
They became millionaires.
Who was the first person to capitalize on using the railroad system to deliver products to costumers across the country?
Richard Sears
JC Penny
Sam Walton
Jeff Bezos
Name the town in Kansas where cowboys/cowhands drove steer to be loaded on the railroad to be shipped back east for processing.
Oklahoma City
Promontory
Denver
Abilene
What invention signaled (caused) the end of the open range?
The Ford Model T
Steel factories
Barbed wire
The interstate highway system
The heyday (prime time) of the American cowboy only lasted ____ years.
90
5
20
50
In 1889, just ____ wild bison existed in the entire United States.
85
1000
3000000
150000
After the locusts became extinct, the Great Plains became the bread basket of the country. What does this mean?
Many bakeries opened making a variety of bread
America could feed itself
Money flowed and the economy grew
All of the above
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
What three natural occurrences did mid-western settlers have to contend with on the Great Plains?
Tornadoes
Drought
Snow
All of the above
What natural obstacle (formation) stood in the way of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Mississippi River
Appalachian Mountains
Grand Canyon
Sierra Nevada Mountains
During the 1860s, ____ million bison roamed the Great Plains.
90
10
30
72
What makes the Cowboy an iconic American symbol?
