Obstacles
New Opportunities
Effects of the Railroad
Miscellaneous
Blank
100
used to blow up mountains to make tunnels.
What is dynamite?
100
grant of land and money
What is subsidies?
100
riches found in the mountains, that caused many immagrants to flock to the mining industry
What is silver and gold?
100
one of the Big Four planning to build the east bound section of the transcontinental railroad
What is Leland Stanford
200
rocks that fell from the mountains and buried work and killed workers
What is an avalanche?
200
brought up many jobs, and towns grew from people mining for silver and gold.
What is railroad boom?
200
people moving to towns out west
What is boomtowns?
200
the trains met here and were joined with a golden pike
What is Promontory, Utah
300
snow, winds, and freezing temperaturs that killed many workers
What is bad weather?
300
people who came from other countries to work on the railroad.
What are immigrants?
300
Lost homes to government because of railroad building
What is Native Americans?
300
one of the most important accomplishments of the 19th century
What is the joining of the two railroads
400
railroad that had to be laid over rugged terrain.
What is Central Pacific?
400
day that the Transcontinental railroad was finished.
What is May 10, 1869?
400
Date transcontinental railroad was finished
What is May 10, 1869?
400
the year Vanderbuilt entered the railroad buisness
What is 1857
500
When they asked for this, the workers were deprived of food
What is higher pay?
500
railroads got more than _______acres, an area the size of Texas.
What is 180 million?
500
Nevada, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming
What is states that were admitted into the Union in 1857?
500
the central pacific recruited large numbers of _______ workers to build the railroad
What is chinese
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