Who
Who were the first immigrants to work on the railroad?
Who are the Chinese.
What was the mode of transportation before the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is horse and buggy.
When was the final spike put in?
When is 1869.
Where did the Union Pacific railways start building from?
Where is Omaha, Nebraska.
Why is it called the Transcontinental Railroad?
Because it stretches from coast to coast.
Who was one of "The Big Four?"
Who are Leland Standford, Collis P. Huntington, Charles Crocker, or Mark Hopkins.
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."
When was the first spike driven into the railroad?
When is 1863.
Where is one of the states the Transcontinental Railroad ran through, besides Utah?
Where is California, Nevada, Wyoming, or Nebraska.
Why was the railroad built?
What is to transport natural resources and population.
Who said that they would not boss the Chinese?
Who was Strobridge.
True or False: The Transcontinental Rail Road was the first rail Road to go coast to coast.
What is True.
When was the Central Pacific awarded the contract?
When was 1862.
Where did the tracks meet?
Where is Promontory Point.
Why did the Chinese rail workers go on strike?
They made less money than the normal workers.
Who succumbed to dysentery after sharing communal dippers?
Who were the Caucasian laborers.
What was the monthly salary of the Chinese rail workers?
What is about $30 a month.
When trains arrived in Utah, what mode of transportation ended.
Covered wagon.
Where did the Central Pacific railways build from?
Where is Sacramento, California.
Why did so many people die during the construction on the Transcontinental Railroad?
Because of explosions, and the severe climate.
Who reported that a gang of Chinamen died before they could be exhumed?
Who was the Dutch Flat Enquirer.
What was the overland travel time prior to the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is 4-6 months.
When the railroad began, what were the two companies that competed to lay the tracks?
The Union Pacific and The Central Pacific.
Where did the Transcontinental Railroad get its financial aid?
The Government.
Why did Iris Chang write Building the Transcontinental Railroad?
To discuss her ancestors and make others aware that the Chinamen were involved in building the railroads.