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What happened at Pike’s Peak in 1858?
GOLD RUSH
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Why is Colorado called the Centennial State?
BECAME A STATE IN 1876
100
When did the government choose a Northern route for the transcontinental RR?
DURING THE CIVIL WAR
100
How did a successful prospector’s take panning for gold compare to a servant’s wages?
20 TIMES
100
. Who punished the criminals in the boomtowns?
VIGILANTES
200
Why were air brakes adopted on trains?
PULL LONGER, HEAVIER TRAINS SAFELY
200
How many prospectors were in Colorado in 1859?
50,000
200
Where did longhorns come from?
TEXAS
200
What did Leland Stanford do at Promontory Point, Utah?
DROVE GOLDEN SPIKE COMPLETING THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RR
200
What kind of government subsidy did RR companies get besides money?
LAND
300
What did “boomtowns” become when they went “bust”?
GHOST TOWNS
300
Why were time zones created?
AVOID COLLISIONS ON CROWDED RAIL NETWORKS
300
Who was able to get most of the gold out of Colorado?
MINING COMPANIES
300
Why did RR companies want such wide strips of land next to their tracks?
TO SELL TO RAISE MONEY
300
What was necessary for the gold to become valuable besides finding and extracting it?
TRANSPORT TO MARKETS
400
What did Los Angeles say that they would pay for to ensure that the Southern Pacific came to LA?
PASSENGER TERMINAL AND MONEY
400
How could ranchers identify their cattle on the open range?
BRANDS
400
What happened to freight rates as RRs got bigger?
WENT DOWN
400
How long did it take to lay the last 10 miles of track?
12 HOURS
400
What was the Comstock Lode gold mine good at producing?
SILVER
500
How many more miles of RR track was there in 1890 compared to 1865?
4X//35,000 TO 150,000
500
How much track did the Union Pacific crews lay?
1,038 MILES
500
Where did the Central Pacific RR start from who did it hire to build the RR?
SACRAMENTO; CHINESE
500
How were the RRs an economic multiplier—how did they affect other industries?
THEY DIRECTLY AFFECT COAL, STEEL, MINING, TIMBER/LUMBER
500
Where did the Union Pacific start from and who did it hire to build the RR?
OMAHA; IRISH AND AFRICAN AMERICANS
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