WorksheetsAmerica the Story of US Episode 6: Transcontinental Rail Road
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which two companies built the Transcontinental Railroad?
Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific
Central Pacific and Union Pacific
Great Northern and Santa Fe
B&O and Pennsylvania
How did the federal government pay the railroad companies?
They paid them in gold and silver.
They gave them stock in the companies.
They gave them federal land.
They used money collected from the Homestead Act.
Which group helped build the railroad alongside Irish immigrants and Civil War veterans?
German immigrants
Chinese workers
Mexican laborers
Freed African Americans
The completion of the railroad triggered a mass migration to which region?
The Pacific Northwest
The Great Plains
The East Coast
Under the Homestead Act, about what percentage of America’s land was given away for free?
What was “Green Gold” during westward expansion?
Around 1850, there were an estimated (a) Buffalo that lived on the (b) .By (c) Fewer than (d) remained due to overhunting.
What was the purpose of The Cowboy in the American West?
To farm wheat on the Great Plains
To build fences for ranchers
To drive cattle from Texas ranches to Kansas rail hubs
To work on the railroads
What invention threatened the cowboy’s way of life?
The telegraph
The steam engine
The automobile
Barbed wire
How long did the heyday of the cowboy on the open range last?
About 20 years
About 10 Years
About 50 years
About 5 Years
Which tribe was involved in both “Custer’s Last Stand” and the “Massacre at Wounded Knee”?
How did the railroad change time in America?
Transportantion of goods made clocks more affordable and available
Companies created standard time zones.
Congress passed the Time Reform Act.
Trains stopped using timetables.
What did Richard Sears contribute to life on the frontier?
Invented the steam engine
Founded the first railroad
Created the mail-order catalog
Opened the first general store
What company did Richard Sears found?
Walmart
Target
K-Mart
What was the biggest obstacle in the way of building the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Rocky Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains
The Sierra Nevada Mountains
The Great Plains
Which animal did the Plains Indians depend on for survival?
Label
Central Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad
Silver Comet Railroad
(a) A railroad system that crossed the American continent. Construction began in 1863
