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When did the Transcontinental Railroad start?
What is April 10, 1869
100
This man passed the legislation to finance the railroad with government bonds.
What is Abraham Lincoln
100
Who were the first immigrants to work on the railroad?
What is Chinese.
100
Person who supports a policy or cause
What is advocate
100
These were established to make trains safer.
What is Time Zones
200
How did the Pacific Railroad Act cost?
What is $90 million
200
These two countries coast were linked together with the rail road.
What is the East and West?
200
Who was one of "The Big Four?"
Who are Leland Standford, Collis P. Huntington, Charles Crocker, or Mark Hopkins.
200
A response to an argument
What is rebuttal
200
traveling across the US took months before the trancontinental railroad. now the same trip can be taken in __________.
What is less than a week
300
How many years did it take to build the railroad?
What is 6 years
300
Before the transcontinental railroad was built what were the two major challenges the people faced
What is the long and unsafe travels across the country and the lack of communication between the east and west coast
300
Who was in charge of the construction of the railroad over the Sierra Mountains?
Who was Charles Crocker.
300
To form something into an organized plan or scheme
What is systematize
300
The Transcontinental RailRoad met in what state?
What is Utah
400
In what year did the railroad start to be built?
What is 1863
400
Who had it easier while laying the railroad tracks
What is the Union Pacific
400
What was the monthly salary of the Chinese rail workers?
What is about $28 a month.
400
A self-interested means to an end
What is expedience
400
New towns that were created and abandonded during the Gold Rush,
What is BOOM TOWNS!!!!!!!!
500
Its 2 am in Los Angeles what time is it in New York?
What is 5 am
500
The only two overland routes west
What is over the Rockies and along the southern route through Apache and Comanche territory
500
Who surveyed the route for the rails?
Who was Theodore Judah.
500
Having mixed feelings about someone or something
What is ambivalence
500
the transcontinental railroad made it easier for _______ or _______ to move west.
What is settlers or pioneers