Author Question: The Pacific Railroad Acts financed the transcontinental railroad through A) land grants. B) ... (Read 29 times)

leo leo · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Which one of the following is not one of the Big Four?

A) Leland Stanford
B) JJ Hill
C) Mark Hopkins
D) Collis Huntington
E) Charles Crocker

Question 2

Among the adverse economic and population changes in fourteenth-century Europe were

A) shrinking peasant land holdings below the size needed to support a family.
B) an exodus of residents from overpopulated rural areas.
C) rapidly rising numbers of poor people in cities.
D) all productive land was being farmed, including many marginal lands susceptible to changing weather patterns.
E) All of these are correct.

Question 3

The Central Pacific Railroad started the first transcontinental line in

A) Los Angeles, California.
B) Las Vegas, Nevada.
C) Sacramento, California.
D) Carson City, Nevada.
E) None of these are correct.

Question 4

Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are best known for their works written in Latin.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 5

The Pacific Railroad Acts financed the transcontinental railroad through

A) land grants.
B) selling stock to railway workers.
C) foreign loans.
D) corporate loans.
E) None of these are correct.