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Transcontinental Railroad

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  • 1. Multiple Choice
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    Railroad owners wanted more people to settle on the Great Plains because...
    farmers would use the railroads to ship products to markets in the cities
    they needed more people to build railroad tracks
    they needed sharecroppers to farm the land owned by the railroads
    settlers would grow cotton and ship it to the south
  • 2. Multiple Choice
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    1 pt
    Which innovation was used to send news of the TRR completion across the country?
    transcontinental railroad
    pony express
    telegraph
    stagecoach
  • 3. Multiple Choice
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    1 pt
    The first railroad to cross the United States was the....
    Union Pacific Railroad
    Central Pacific Railroad
    Missouri Railroad
    Transcontinental Railroad
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