People
Westward Expansion
Wild Card
Transcontinental Railroad
Impact
100

Group of people who built the railroad.

Who are Chinese Immigrants?

100

Name of the video game simulating the wagon trail used to go West. 

What is The Oregon Trail?

100

Cost of the Louisiana Purchase.

What is 15 million dollars?

100

Name of the railroad company that started in the midwest. 

What is the Union Pacific Railroad Company?

100

Invention that replaced the Pony Express.

What is the telegraph?

200

President who supported the Transcontinental Railroad.

Who is Abraham Lincoln? 

200

Years of operation for the Pony Express. 

What is 1860-1861?

200

Name of the explorers who went around the US after the Louisiana Purchase.

What is Lewis and Clark?

200

Name of the railroad company that started in California. 

What is the Central Pacific Railroad Company?

200

Name of the war going on during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. 

What is the Civil War?

300

Number of Chinese immigrants helped with the railroad. 

What is 20,000 people. 

300

Slogan for the Texas fight during the Texas Revolution. 

What is Remember the Alamo!?

300

Name of the trail that the Mormons used.

What was the Mormon Trail?

300

The record amount of miles built in one day. 

What is 10 miles?

300

Name of the scandal involved in the Transcontinental Railroad. 

What is the Credit Mobilier? 

400

Name of the French rule who sold the Louisiana Purchase. 

Who is Napoleon? 

400

Year of Louisiana Purchase.

What is 1803?

400

Name of the Mountain Range that caused an obstacle for Central Pacific. 

What is the Sierra Nevada Mountains?

400

Time spent building the railroad. 

What is 7 years?

400

Name of the event where Native Americans were moved to Oklahoma. 

What was the Trail of Tears?

500

Name of the person who "discovered" gold. 

Who is John Sutter? 

500

Year that the California Gold Rush kicked off. 

What is 1849?

500

Name of the belief that the United States should stretch from sea to shining sea.

What is Manifest Destiny?

500

Location of the Golden Spike. 

What is Promontory Point, Utah?

500

An invention that was created as a result of the railroad. 

What is a time zone?

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