Transcontinental Railroad
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- Q1
A union is made up of
bosses who come together to run a business
workers who come together to fight for better pay, better working conditions
workers who come together to fight for less pay, poorer working conditions
30s - Q2
The belief held in the 19th century that it was the United States' right and destiny to extend its territory west to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
Your Destiny
Manifest Road
Our Destiny
30s - Q3
It took how long to cross the country on the transcontinental railroad?
100 days
4 days
25 days
6 months
30s - Q4
gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres of public land provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee.
Pacific Railroad Act
Homestead Act of 1862
Central Railroad Act
Hopeful Act of 1862
30s - Q5
What impact did the transcontinental railroad have on Indigenous people?
Were forced to move and killed
Polluted natural resources they depended on, destroyed hunting grounds, forced them to move or be killed
It had no impact
30s - Q6
The Pacific Railway Act gave government money to two companies in order to build
alopecia
the transcontinental railroad
the first pullman train car
the turntable road
30s - Q7
Central Pacific
refused to use immigrant Chinese laborers to build the railroad
used immigrant Chinese laborers to build the railroad
30s - Q8
The state of Idaho used to be 1/3
Chinese Immigrants
Japanese Immigrants
European Immigrants
Mexican Immigrants
30s - Q9
Industrialists/tycoons/robber barons in today's dollars would
be poorer than Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates
richer than Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates
30s