Who
What
Trivia
Where
Why
100

President who wanted the transcontinental railroad built.

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

100

Mode of wheeled transportation before the Transcontinental Railroad

What is the horse and waggon?

100

May 10, 1869

When was the final spike placed?

100

Starting point for building the Union Pacific railroad

What is Omaha, Nebraska?

100

Because the tracks connect the East Coast with the West Coast

Why is it called the Transcontinental Railroad?

200

Company that built tracks West to East

What was the Central Pacific?

200

$16,000 per mile level, $48,000 per mile mountain plus 6400 acres per mile of federal land

How much did the US government pay the companies that built the Transcontinental Railroad?

200

Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific

What are the four time zones created by the Transcontinental Railroad?

200

California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Nebraska

What states does Transcontinental Railroad go through?

200

People and things need a way to move more quickly from East to West

Why was the transcontinental railroad built?

300

They built the Central Pacific tracks.

Who were Chinese immigrants?

300

This substance was used to create tunnels through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

What is black powder?

300

This war was being fought when work began on the Transcontinental Railroad

What was the Civil War?

300

State where the railroads met

What is Utah?

300

People in the east were hungry for meat.

Why were cattle driven to the railroads?

400

They built the Union Pacific tracks

Who were Irish immigrants and African Americans?

400

Land and money for railroads from the federal government

What are subsidies?

400

A dollar a day

How much were the Chinese railroad workers paid?

400

Promontory Summit

Where was the Golden Spike driven to complete the Transcontinental Railroad?

400

Railroad workers faced accidents with explosives, mountain ice and snow, and Native American attacks

Why did many people die during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?

500

He drove the Golden Spike

Who was Leland Stanford?

500

School named for the person who drove the Golden Spike

What is Stanford University?

500

The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific

What companies built the transcontinental railroad?

500

Omaha, Nebraska, and Sacramento, California

Where did the Transcontinental Railroad begin and end?

500

To encourage the railroads to build the tracks faster

Why did the government give subsidies to the railroad companies?

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