Background - Green
Union Pacific - Pink
Formation of Crédit Mobilier - Yellow
Scandal - Tan
Trials/Scandal Outbreak - Blue
100
It connected the railway network of the Eastern coast with rapidly growing California
What is the First Transcontinental Railroad?
100
Created under the Pacific Railway Act of 1862.
What is the Union Pacific Railroad?
100
The vice president of the Union Pacific who formed Credit Mobilier.
Who is Thomas Durant?
100
The person who distributed discounted stocks and cash bribes to other members of Congress.
Who is Congressman Oakes Ames?
100
The New York based newspaper which leaked compromising letters about Credit Mobilier.
What is The Sun Newspaper?
200
The white railroad workers usually supervised over this ethnic group of workers.
What are Chinese railroad workers?
200
The state in which the Union Pacific started the transcontinental railroad.
What is Omaha, Nebraska?
200
The year in which Credit Mobilier was formed?
What is 1863?
200
The presidential administration in which the scandal came to light.
What is the Grant administration?
200
This future president was not publicly charged but did buy 10 stocks from Credit Mobilier.
Who is President James Garfield?
300
It employed a quarter of the nation's labor force.
What were the railroad companies?
300
The majority of this laborer population built the railroad.
What are Irish laborers?
300
These were sold at a lower value on the market to create the image of a thriving Credit Mobilier company.
What are stocks?
300
Thomas Durant paid this person to place a construction bid to the Union Pacific.
Who is Herbert M. Hoxie?
300
The papers claimed that the $72 million contracts given by the federal government were only used to build this dollar amount of the railroad.
What is $53 million?
400
The person who set the building of the transcontinental railroad in motion.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
Abraham Lincoln asked this man to help manage the Union Pacific Railroad.
Who is Thomas Durant?
400
The original name of the Credit Mobilier company?
What is the Pennsylvania Fiscal Company?
400
The concept that those from Union Pacific who owned Credit Mobilier paid themselves (Credit Mobilier) to build the railroad.
What are rollbacks?
400
The person who leaked the letters from Oakes Ames to the press, beginning the scandal outbreak.
Who is Henry Simpson McComb?
500
It was completed on May 10, 1869.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
500
This was planted on May 10, 1869 in Utah.
What is the Golden Spike?
500
The presidential administration in which the Credit Mobilier company was formed.
What is the Lincoln administration?
500
The amount of miles of the railroad that the contract with the government paid Credit Mobilier to build.
What are 667 miles?
500
The two representatives in the House who were censured by the Poland Committe and later Congress.
Who are James Brooks and Oakes Ames?
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