True or False
John Bidwell was a successful wheat farmer
What is true?
A scientist who worked to develop new and better kinds of plants
What is Luther Burbank?
export
What is to sell goods to other countries?
What caused the violence at Mussel Slough?
What is farmers and railroad companies disagreed over the price of the land.
California's economy was effected by the completion of the transcontinental railroad
an engineer with a plan for building a transcontinental railroad
Who is Theodore Judah?
what are examples of different communication methods in the 1800's?
telegraph, telegram, pony express, overland mail act aka stagecoach
What changes took place in the speed of communication between California and the eastern states in the 1850s and early 1860s?
1858, Overland Mail Company brought mail by stagecoach from Missouri to California in 24 days. Then, in 1860, Pony Express riders succeeded in bringing mail by horse in only 10 days. Finally, in 1861, the first telegraph line connected from California to the East. The telegraph could send messages in minutes.
It was hard to find workers for the Transcontinental Railroad because many were fighting in the civil war.
True
one of the big four
Who is Leland Stanford?
irrigation
the ability to supply water in land. This was important for Imperial Valley and Sacramento because it was so dry.
Would commercial farms have developed in California without the gold rush?
Commercial farms would have eventually started due to California's fertile soil and long growing season, the gold rush made it happen faster
The building of the Transcontinental Railroad did not hurt California's businesses.
False. It did hurt their businesses because the train brought in goods from other places that were cheaper.
John Butterfield's contribution to California's growth
What is he founded a company that carried mail by stagecoach?
Commercial farms
Commerical farms are farms that grow crops for the purpose of selling
Who were the workers who built the transcontinental railroad, and what challenges did they face?
The Union Pacific hired Irish immigrants and later, Civil War soldiers to lay tracks. Central Pacific hired Chinese immigrants. Both groups were challenged to work fast. Central Pacific faced dangerous conditions, Chinese workers had to blast tunnels through the Sierra Nevada.
work on the railroad was long, but easy.
False. Work was dangerous, the Chinese immigrants had to blow tunnels with explosives.
an herbalist who came to California to look for gold
Who is Yee Fung Cheung?
stagecoaches that were used to transport mail. It took about 24 days.
How was the transcontinental railroad paid for?
Theodore Judah asked Leland Stanford, Collis P Hunington, and Mark Hopkins and Charles Croker who became known as the big four to invest in the railroad. Then he went to Washington D.C. and got congress to provide money and land for them to lay track east of Sacramento.