TRR (Transcontinental Railroad) Study
Guide Exam Fully Solved.
Why was the Transcontinental Railroad built? - Answer To connect to the east and west.
Inhabit the empty plains. Remove the native americans. Communicate and trade (food) with our
countries and others. Make america powerful. Create jobs and industry. Health and medicine.
Information and education. Travel across the country safely.
How did the transcontinental railroad change the Native-American culture? - Answer The
Native Americans were nomadic hunters who followed the migration of the Buffalo herds on the
Great Plains. The Transcontinental railroad cuts right through the Great Plains resulting in
ending the Buffalo migration and it also carried in many trophy hunters that killed buffalo for
sport not food. When the Buffalo herds are destroyed there is no food for the Native Americans.
They are forced to live on US reservations and fed by US government or be killed by many US
soldiers. This ends their culture and their way of life.
The event propelled the United States to become the world's superpower by growing the
country's - Answer Communication, Education, Medicine, Travel, Land, and Laws.
Union Pacific - Answer The railroad based on the East Coast helped build the transcontinental
railroad; starting point was Omaha, Nebraska.
Central Pacific - Answer The railroad based on the West Coast helped build the
transcontinental railroad; starting point was Sacramento, California.
Promontory Point - Answer Where the Golden Spike and the two railroads met.
1849 - Answer When the gold rush in California started.
General William Tecumseh Sherman - Answer Who wrote in 1867: quote; The more we can kill
this year, the less will have to be killed the next year, for the more I see of these Indians the
more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers?
Nitroglycerine. - Answer Was 8 times more powerful than black powder.
Guide Exam Fully Solved.
Why was the Transcontinental Railroad built? - Answer To connect to the east and west.
Inhabit the empty plains. Remove the native americans. Communicate and trade (food) with our
countries and others. Make america powerful. Create jobs and industry. Health and medicine.
Information and education. Travel across the country safely.
How did the transcontinental railroad change the Native-American culture? - Answer The
Native Americans were nomadic hunters who followed the migration of the Buffalo herds on the
Great Plains. The Transcontinental railroad cuts right through the Great Plains resulting in
ending the Buffalo migration and it also carried in many trophy hunters that killed buffalo for
sport not food. When the Buffalo herds are destroyed there is no food for the Native Americans.
They are forced to live on US reservations and fed by US government or be killed by many US
soldiers. This ends their culture and their way of life.
The event propelled the United States to become the world's superpower by growing the
country's - Answer Communication, Education, Medicine, Travel, Land, and Laws.
Union Pacific - Answer The railroad based on the East Coast helped build the transcontinental
railroad; starting point was Omaha, Nebraska.
Central Pacific - Answer The railroad based on the West Coast helped build the
transcontinental railroad; starting point was Sacramento, California.
Promontory Point - Answer Where the Golden Spike and the two railroads met.
1849 - Answer When the gold rush in California started.
General William Tecumseh Sherman - Answer Who wrote in 1867: quote; The more we can kill
this year, the less will have to be killed the next year, for the more I see of these Indians the
more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers?
Nitroglycerine. - Answer Was 8 times more powerful than black powder.
