Transcontinental railroad exam with complete
solutions
1. Pacific Railway Act provided for the construction of a transcontinental railroad by
2 corpo-
rations
2. Transcontinental railroad across the continent
Rail- road
3. Cornelius Vanderbilt one of the most successful railroad consolidators
4. Land Grants used to encourage railroad construction across the Great
Plains; given
by fed gov.; land was then sold to settlers, real estate
companies, and other business to raise money to build the
railroads
5. Jay Gould most notoriously corrupt railroad owner; infamous for
manipulating stock
6. Credit Mobilier Scandal construction company set up by several stockholders of
the Union
Pacific Railroad
7. Great Northern Railroad Built from Wisconsin to Minnesota in the East to
Washington in the West
without any federal grant or substudies by James J. Hill
8. *** After the Civil War, railroad construction expanded
dramatically
9. The railroad boom Rail- road had primary in- vestors
be- gan in 1862 who were known as?
when Pres- ident
Lincoln signed
what?
10. The Central Pacific
1/
5
, Transcontinental railroad exam with complete
solutions
Pacific Railway Act
The Big Four-Charles Crochar, Mark Hopkins, Leionel Stanford,
Collis Huntington
11. China
2/
5
solutions
1. Pacific Railway Act provided for the construction of a transcontinental railroad by
2 corpo-
rations
2. Transcontinental railroad across the continent
Rail- road
3. Cornelius Vanderbilt one of the most successful railroad consolidators
4. Land Grants used to encourage railroad construction across the Great
Plains; given
by fed gov.; land was then sold to settlers, real estate
companies, and other business to raise money to build the
railroads
5. Jay Gould most notoriously corrupt railroad owner; infamous for
manipulating stock
6. Credit Mobilier Scandal construction company set up by several stockholders of
the Union
Pacific Railroad
7. Great Northern Railroad Built from Wisconsin to Minnesota in the East to
Washington in the West
without any federal grant or substudies by James J. Hill
8. *** After the Civil War, railroad construction expanded
dramatically
9. The railroad boom Rail- road had primary in- vestors
be- gan in 1862 who were known as?
when Pres- ident
Lincoln signed
what?
10. The Central Pacific
1/
5
, Transcontinental railroad exam with complete
solutions
Pacific Railway Act
The Big Four-Charles Crochar, Mark Hopkins, Leionel Stanford,
Collis Huntington
11. China
2/
5
