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The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Transcontinental Railroad
Iron Horse
100
The year that the Pacific Railroad Act was ratified.
When was 1862?
100
The minority that helped build the Central Pacific Railway.
Who are the Chinese?
100
A set of trains that were used for transportation, and also used as a postal system.
What is the iron horse?
200
The sixteenth president of the United States who proposed and ratified the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
The name of the railroad that stretched between Chicago and Utah.
What is the Union Pacific Railway?
200
The war that first marked the use of iron horses.
What is the Civil War?
300
One of the two major groups who funded the construction.
Who are the banks or rich people?
300
One of the two groups that worked on the Union Pacific Railway.
Who are the Army Veterans or Northern Europeans?
300
The iron horse transported supplies as well as these during the civil war.
What are soldiers?
400
The term that means "crossing a continent"
What is transcontinental?
400
The name of the railroad that stretched between Utah and California.
What is the Central Pacific Railroad?
400
This event made the Iron Horses a popular source of transportation to California because of growing business.
What is the Gold Rush?
500
The reason construction started in Illinois rather than at the Atlantic ocean.
What is there was an already existing railroad there?
500
The city where the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad met.
What is Promontory Summit, Utah?
500
The railroad that the Iron Horses traveled during the Civil War.
What is the Union Pacific Railroad?