Directions: Please answer each question to the best of your ability using the readings
from Distance Learning (not including Day 1 material on Voting Trends).
Part I - If the statement is true, mark "T" and if the statement is false, mark "F."
1. One reason the Union Pacific made little progress in the first two years of
construction was because the Civil War was still being fought which made it difficult to
find workers
2. Thomas C. Durant was one of the partners of the Central Pacific Railroad.
3. The railroads were paid more for building through mountains than building on
the plains
4. The investors of the Transcontinental Railroad were interested in replacing
wagons and ships with the railroad to move goods more quickly.
5. The railroads had to give the government 6,400 acres of land for every mile
of track they laid