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Section Quiz 5-2
DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item in Column A with the items in Column B.
Write the correct letters in the blanks. (10 points each)
Column A
Column B
1. one of the most famous and successful railroad
consolidators
A. time zones
2. regions where the same time is kept
C. land grants
3. notoriously corrupt railroad owner
4. built the Great Northern Railroad
5. given to the railroad companies by the government to
encourage railroad construction
B. James J. Hill
D. Cornelius
Vanderbilt
E. Jay Gould
DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice In the blank at the left, write the letter of the choice
that best completes the statement or answers the question. (10 points each)
6. Which transcontinental railroad operated without government subsidies
and was the only one not forced into bankruptcy?
A. Central Pacific Railroad
C. Pennsylvania Railroad
B. Great Northern Railroad
D. Union Pacific Railroad
8. By linking the nation, railroads helped increase the size of markets for
A. products.
C. Native Americans.
B. cities.
D. homesteaders.
9. The Central Pacific Railroad began as the dream of engineer
A. Leland Stanford.
C. Theodore Dehone Judah.
B. Charley Crocker.
D. Collis P. Huntington.
10. What railroad began pushing westward under the direction of engineer
Grenville Dodge?
A. Central Pacific
C. Crédit Mobilier
B. Southern Railway
D. Union Pacific
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7. The railroad boom began in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln
signed the
A. time zone legislation.
C. Land Grant Law.
B. Gettysburg Address.
D. Pacific Railway Act.