Vocabulary
appreciated
The amount of time it used to take travelers to go to the West
What is months?
The people who began a journey first, or were the first to do something
Who are pioneers?
The place (city and state) where the train tracks started on the West Coast
Where is Sacramento, California?
What is coal?
Find the missing word: The population _______ in western states.
boomed
What is 1825?
Thousands of these kind of people rushed to California to look for gold in 1849
Who are miners?
The place (city and state) where they built the tracks on the Eastern side, so that it would connect the East to the West
Where is Omaha, Nebraska?
Things that trains transport today - name two
What are bricks, coal, cement, sand, stone, lumber, cars, car parts, animal feed, canned goods?
emigration
train tracks
This person was 14 years old when she traveled west in a wagon train in 1849, and she kept a diary to keep track of the details of her trip.
Who is Sallie Hester?
In the 1840s, thousands of families moved west by covered wagon to these two states.
Where is Oregon and Nebraska?
Name five text features from the article
What are photographs, captions, maps, sidebars, bold words, highlighted words, headings?
Find the missing word: In order to carry goods or people from one place to another, you must have _______.
vehicles
Name of a story that someone writes about themselves
The name of the U.S. president that was in office when Congress decided that a railroad should be built to connect the East and West
President Abraham Lincoln
This trip from _______ to ________ would have normally taken 5 months by wagon. This was BEFORE trains were introduced as a type of travel.
Where is Missouri to California?
The time period in which thousands of families moved to Oregon and California.
Find the missing word: Trains and airplanes are two types of ___________ for people to travel from one place to another.
transportation
Amount of time it took for people to travel from the East to the West BEFORE the introduction of trains
What is months?
Most of the railroaders came from another country. Name the nationality of people.
The place where the two railroads met together once they were built. Both railroad companies built to this point.
Where is Promontory Point?
Something that the railroad owners did once the tracks were built
What is drove in a golden spike to show where the tracks met?