L.1 Links to the East
Communication is the sending and receiving of news.
What is communication?
A transcontinental railroad was the railroad that crossed the continent from Atlantic to the Pacific
What was the trancontinental railroad?
Competition is a contest among companies to get the most customers.
What does competition mean?
To sell goods to people in another country
What does export mean?
In Japan
Where was Shima born?
A stagecoach is an enclosed wagon pulled by horses.
What is a stagecoach?
Invest means to buy something such as a share or a part of a company.
What is the meaning to "invest?"
It would be easier to travel
Why might people have thought that the railroad would help Sacramento grow?
Only to sell crops
What does "commercial farms" mean?
The "Potato King."
What did people call George Shima?
A telegraph is the electricity to send messages over wires.
What is a telegraph?
By improving transportation from the west and east. Also improvements in communication.
How could a railroad help bring the country together?
They were stretched in so many directions.
Why were the Big Four nicknamed "the Octopus?"
There was greater demands
How did the gold rush affect the agriculture in California?
25,000 acres of land
How many acres of land did he control/own?
Better communication to improve mail service.
How might faster mail service improve life for Californians?
Many people were fighting in the war, which caused fewer people to work on the railroad.
How did the Civil War affect the building of the transcontinental railroad?
By the gold rush and commercial farms.
How was California able to become an agricultural power?
In 1917.
When did he retire?
He started a stagecoach line called Overland Mail Company.
What led John Butterfield to form the Overland Mail Company?
I think it means "the last."
What do you think the message on the final spike means?
Because they stop water from flooding into their farms.
Why are levees important to California farmers?
He became a member of the Order of the Rising Sun, in Japan.
What happened in 1926?