Transportation and Communication
This invention used wires to send messages quickly across long distances.
What is the telegraph?
These are what the reasons people move to a new place, like jobs or land are called.
What are pull factors?
Treating people unfairly because of who they are is called this.
What is discrimination?
This crop grows well in California because it does not need much water.
What is wheat?
This system moves water from one place to another.
What is an aqueduct?
This system used riders on horses to deliver mail across long distances.
What is the Pony Express?
These are reasons people leave their home country, like poverty.
What are push factors?
Believing one group of people is better than another is called this.
What is racism?
This invention kept fruits and vegetables from spoiling on their way east.
What are refrigerated train cars?
This stores water for later use.
What is a reservoir?
This major railroad connected the eastern and western United States.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The biggest pull factor to California that started in 1848.
What is the Gold Rush?
This 1882 law limited Chinese immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This helped farmers send crops to faraway places.
What are railroads?
This controls water and helps prevent floods.
What is a dam?
The place where the two sides of the Transcontinental Railroad met.
What was Promontory Summit, Utah?
This Asian country was home to many immigrants who helped build railroads.
What is China?
Many Chinese immigrants lived in neighborhoods called this.
What is Chinatown?
California farmers grew fruits like these.
What are grapes or oranges?
This means manufacturing goods in factories.
What is industry?
The ways people would travel to California from the East Coast before modern transportation.
This means moving to a new country to live
What is immigration?
This place in California checked immigrants before they entered the U.S.
What is Angel Island?
These machines helped farmers work faster.
What are harvestors?
California needs water systems mostly for these two things.
What are farming and cities (people)?