Unit 7 Vocabulary
What word means to not cost very much?
What is affordable.
What did Theodore Judah ask President Abraham Lincoln for to set up two railroad companies?
What is money and land?
What did the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the Union Pacific Railroad Company compete for?
They competed to lay the most track and make money.
Where did the Union Pacific Railroad starting laying track?
The Union Pacific Railroad starting laying track at the Missouri River.
Something hard, tiring and exhausting
grueling
Someone who evaluates or judges something
critic
What are the names of the two railroad companies?
The Central Pacific Railroad Company and the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
They laid track through the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
How many miles of track did the workers lay daily?
2 miles per day.
money or an investment from the government
bonds
A person who designs or constructs machines or buildings is known as a what?
What is an engineer.
What year was the starting point of the Pacific Railroad?
The starting point for the Pacific Railroad was in 1867.
Why was it easier for the Union Pacific Railroad Company to lay track?
The Union Pacific Railroad Company laid track on flat land.
What year did the Transcontinental Railroad completed?
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869.
transcontinental
These are wealthy, rich businessmen
tycoons
What is the name of the special document that President Abraham signed called?
The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.
What does transcontinental mean?
Transcontinental going across the continent crossing different land areas or terrain,
About how long did a trip from New York to San Francisco take by train? East coast to west coast.
It took about a week (7 days).
To target groups negatively based on race or skin color
discrimination
This is an area of land that you can secure.
reservation
What did the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad receive as an incentive for laying track ?
The companies received money.
Where did the Central Pacific Railroad start laying track?
They began laying track in California.
- discrimination
- no housing
- isolated areas
- couldn't celebrate
- working all the time (cook, clean)
A reward or bonus
incentive