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The Pacific Railway Act
a) gave land to RR companies as a way to encourage them to build and finance the Transcontinental RR.
b) Moved Native Americans to new homes so the railroads could be built
c) Gave free land to homesteaders
d) Helped pioneers kill the buffalo on their land.
Chinese immigrants worked mainly on the
a) Central Pacific Railroad
b) Plantations
c) Union Pacific Railroad
d) Farms and ranches
By the 1860s, there were about 16 million buffalo on the Plains. Within 20 years, they had decreased to
a) less than 1,000
b) Less than 10,000
c) Less than 100,000
d) Less than 1,000,000
The railroad was built east from California by
a) Freedmen
b) The Union Pacific
c) Scalawags
d) Central Pacific
The two companies who built the railroad were
a) The Union Pacific and Central Pacific
b) Atlantic Pacific and Central Union
c) Freedmen and Carpetbaggers
d) Sharecroppers
The Transcontinental Railroad took _____ years to build.
a) 10
b) 3
c) 7
d) 15
The ______________________________ built west from Nebraska and employed mostly, immigrants, former slaves, and former Confederate soldiers
a) Central Pacific Railroad
b) Plantation owners
c) Union Pacific Railroad
d) d. Pony Express
The railroad had a negative effect on the railroad due to
a) tracks crossed the plains and tunnels through mountains
b) coal-burning engines required fuel and more fuel required an increase in mining which destroyed land and caused pollution
c) SMOKE from factories and WASTE from processing plants polluted the air and water
d) All of the above
Herds of buffalo were killed because
a) Railroad companies wanted to starve the Native Americans
b) People in the east wanted buffalo meat
c) The buffalo trampled the railroad tracks and damaged them
d) The Native Americans had too many buffalo.
The Transcontinental Railroad joined in
a) St. Louis, Missouri
b) San Francisco, California
c) Promontory Point, Utah
d) Dallas, Texas
Railroads made it easier for settlers to live in the West. Unfortunately, these newcomers killed the Plains Indians’ greatest resource, the bison (or buffalo). What did the buffalo mean to the Indians?
a) SKIN- covering of their tepees
b) Hide- CLOTHES
c) Meat-FOOD
d) All of the above
The Pony Express began delivering mail from______________________in 10 days. People, mostly young men on horses, transported mail in a relay-style fashion.
a) Utah to Arizona
b) Missouri to California
c) Texas to Virginia
d) Louisiana to Missouri
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