Transcontinental Railroad

Question 1

What role did Chinese Workers play in building the Central Pacific railroad?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 2

developed a way to send telegraph messages

Accepted Answer

Samuel Morse

Question 3

Horse drawn wagons that traveled in regular stages

Accepted Answer

stagecoach

Question 4

Warned Native Americans leaders that they could not stop the locomotive

Accepted Answer

General William Tecumseh sherman

Question 5

Part of transcontinental railroad that ran from west to Omaha, Nebraska

Accepted Answer

Union Pacific

Question 6

business that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just ten days

Accepted Answer

Pony Express

Question 7

invention that sent messages along wires using electricity

Accepted Answer

telegraph

Question 8

Major natural obstacle to the central pacific

Accepted Answer

Sierra Nevada

Question 9

Two problems faced by Union Pacific

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 10

Why did the new telegraph lines put the Pony Express out of business?

Accepted Answer

messages sent in few minutes

Question 11

told Union Pacific workers that they were scaring away the buffalo

Accepted Answer

Red Cloud

Question 12

Part of Transcontinental Railroad that ran east from Sacramento, California

Accepted Answer

Central Pacific

Question 13

Place where the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific met

Accepted Answer

Promontory Point, Utah Territory

Questions 13