Who
What
When
Where
Why
100
Who were the first immigrants to work on the railroad?
What is Chinese.
100
What was the mode of transportation before the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is horse and buggy.
100
When was the final spike put in?
What is 1869.
100
Where did the Union Pacific railways start building from?
What is Omaha, Nebraska.
100
Why is it called the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is because it stretches coast to coast.
200
Who was one of "The Big Four?"
Who are Leland Standford, Collis P. Huntington, Charles Crocker, or Mark Hopkins.
200
What did Charles Crocker say about the Chinese workers, not being big enough to work on the railroad?
What is "They built the Great Wall of China."
200
When was the first spike driven into the railroad?
What is 1863.
200
What is one of the states the Transcontinental Railroad ran trough, besides Utah?
What is California, Nevada, Wyoming, or Nebraska.
200
Why was the railroad built?
What is so the Western US could be more easily populated.
300
Who was in charge of the construction of the railroad over the Sierra Mountains?
Who was Charles Crocker.
300
True or False: The Transcontinental Rail Road was the first rail Road to go coast to coast.
What is True.
300
What war was going on when the Transcontinental Railroad was being built?
What is the Civil War.
300
Where did the tracks meet?
What is Promontory Point.
300
Why did the Chinese rail workers go on strike?
What is they made less money than the normal workers.
400
Who's job was it to oversee the finances of the construction of the railroad?
What is Collis P. Huntington.
400
What was the monthly salary of the Chinese rail workers?
What is about $28 a month.
400
When trains arrived in Utah, what mode of transportation ended.
What is the covered wagon.
400
Where did the Central Pacific railways build from?
What is Sacramento, California.
400
Why did so many people die during the construction on the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is because of explosions, and the severe climate.
500
Who surveyed the route for the rails?
Who was Theodore Judah.
500
What was the overland travel time prior to the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is 5-6 months.
500
When the railroad began, what were the two companies that competed to lay the tracks?
What is The Union Pacific and The Central Pacific.
500
Where did the Transcontinental Railroad get its financial aid?
What is the Government.
500
Why did a railroad worker end up driving in the last spike?
What is because Governor Standford missed two times.
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