What year did the people of Iowa ask Congress for the Transcontinental Railroad?
Hint: It rounds up to 1840.
a)1838
b)1839
c)1834
a) 1838
100
What was the farthest distance laid down by workers in one day?
10 Miles
100
What did the Government change?
Railroad Act
100
Name some reasons that we don't use trains that often anymore.
We have faster ways of transportation such as cars and airplanes.
200
This Act offers the two railroad building companies government loans and free land to build the railroad on.
Pacific Railroad Act
200
The gold rush was in what year.
Hint: Rounds up to 1850
a)1848
b)1849
c)1853
b)1849
200
How many workers were needed for this building?
a) Hundreds
b) Thousands
c) Millions
b) Thousands
200
What did the new Railroad Act Offer?
More money and land.
200
Who had a beard Charles Crocker or Grenville Dodge?
Charles Crocker
300
This person was the leader of the Union Pacific.
Grenville Dodge
300
What year did Congress pass the Pacific Railroad Act?
Hint: Rounds to 1860.
a) 1858
b) 1862
c) 1870
b) 1862
300
What type of people did the Central Pacific people hire to work for them?
Chinese and Irish immigrants.
300
How did this railroad change transportation of goods?
It made transporting goods and services faster and cheaper.
300
What were the worries of the railroad builders?
Conflicts with natives and getting over the Rocky Mountains through the Great Basin, and the land of the Sierra Nevada California.
400
Leader of the Central Pacific.
Charles Crocker
400
Three years after the railroad started to get built was 1865. What year did the railroad start its building?
1862
400
What type of people did the Union Pacific high to work for them?
Irish and German immigrants.
400
How did the gold rush limit the workers to build the railroad?
People went to look for gold cause it was worth more than the pay they would get for the railroad working job. It was also less dangerous.
400
Who laid the most track Union Pacific or Central Pacific?
Union Pacific
500
The golden spike was a symbolism of what?
This spike was the symbolism of the unity of the east and west side of the United States.
500
The railroad was complete after how many years.
Six
500
Who sang "I've Been Working on the Railroad" while they worked?
a) Union Pacific
b) Central Pacific
a) Union Pacific
500
How did the Golden Spike change the way people looked at their country?
It united the east and west. This country is now seen as a whole with no separations. For example we were seen as the East and West now we are a whole.
500
What continent did the rails have to go around in order for the Central Pacific people to start building?