Trains
$65
Today a dozen of eggs cost you $3.75, but in 1860's they were?
Eggs, 18 cents/dozen
Today $36 was worth one dollar in 1860. How much was two dollars worth?
$72
True or False? Bison and buffalo are the same animal species.
False
Why did the railroad impact Indigenous nations?
It ran through and disturbed their communities
Everyone wants to sit in luxury, first class in 1870 would cost you this...
$136
In 1860 a quart of cranberries were 12 cents. At Smiths today they are?
$3.98
How much is 0.36 cents of today's money worth in the 1860's?
1 penny
Before the railroad was built this many Bison ran around North America
30 Million
Name two feeling words about how the Indigenous must of felt around 1869...
hurt, betrayed, confused, ect...
The miles the train has to travel on the Union and Central Pacific Railroad
2566 miles
Coffee was 15 cents a pound in 1860...today it is?
$1.90
Today the average worker makes about $400 a day...but if you were building the railroad back in the day you would be making about...
90 cents
After the railroad was made, about this many Bison remained
about 1,000
A colony is a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory, or land. They claim the new land for the original country, and the original country keeps some control over the colony. The settlement itself is also called a colony. The practice of setting up colonies is called
colonialism
Building the project cost roughly $60 million, but today it would cost close to
about $1.2 billion
I got a lemon for 58 cents this weekend. It would have cost me much less in 1864...
Lemons, 2 cents/each
A four bedroom apartment was about $4.45 a month, now it is 400 times that
1780
Yellowstone National Park
This government entity illegally gave permission to the railroad companies to use Indigenous land, breaking past treaties
U.S Congress
Inflation
Table salt, 20 cents/sack
Write an equation to represent how you would calculate how much a pound of Honey costs today if in 1860 it was 25 cents or 12 times cheaper than it is today.
0.25 x 12= 3
Michael Coleman, an Utahan artist, referred to the rumbling of a herd of bison as this
thunder
Not only did colonialism led to the endangerment of bison, but Indigenous communities lost out on these type of opportunities between other communities.
Trade