Travel Before the Railroad
This is the name of the most famous trail that pioneers took to reach the West before railroads.
What is the Oregon Trail?
These are the two oceans that were connected by the Transcontinental Railroad.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
These are the main victims of the Sand Creek Massacre
What are women and children?
These are two dangers that Chinese Immigrants faced working on the railroad.
What are steep cliffs and explosions?
What animal almost went extinct because of the Transcontinental Railroad?
What are the Buffalo?
True or False: The Isthmus of Panama route was faster than sailing around South America.
What is "True"?
These were the names of the two railroad companies that built the TCR.
What are the Central Pacific and Union Pacific?
This was the goal of Native Boarding schools.
What is erasing Indigenous culture?
This was the primary job of most Chinese immigrants in the 1860s.
What was a railroad worker?
This railroad's impact included clearing forests.
What is deforestation?
This disease, caused by lack of vitamin C, killed many sailors on the Cape Horn route.
What is scurvy?
This was one benefit of the TCR.
What is faster or more affordable travel, or made goods cheaper?
This is an example of how children were treated at the boarding schools.
What is forced labor, starvation, emotional abuse, or physical discipline?
This group said that the “Chinese Must Go!”
What is the Workingmen’s Party?
Between 1860 and 1890, this many buffalo were killed per day.
What is 10 million?
What was the fastest way to travel as a large upper-class family?
What is the Cape Horn route?
This is where the two sides of the railroad met up.
What is Promontory Point?
This battle is one of the biggest wins for the Native people.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This is everything that happened when the Chinese workers went on strike.
What is being denied food, better pay, and working conditions, and being threatened by law enforcement.
These are two consequences of deforestation.
1) Mudslides and/or landslides
2) Removal of entire forests
Some people buried this along the Isthmus of Panama
What is gold?
This is the amount of money that the U.S. granted in subsidies.
What is 64 million?
This is the number of children who attended boarding schools.
What is 100 thousand?
This was the primary reason Chinese immigrants were blamed for economic problems in the late 1800s.
What is cheap labor, or “taking jobs from white workers?”
The percentage decline in the fish population near the railroad.
What is 70%