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Links to the East
Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Rails Across America
An Agriculture Power
Railroad Miscellaneous
100
How many days did the Pony Express promise to deliver mail between St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California?
What is 10 days?
100
What were the group of men called who invested and later owned the Central Pacific Railroad Company?
Who are the "Big Four"?
100
What is it called in business when there is a contest among companies to get the most customers or to sell the most products?
What is competition?
100
What is it called when we sell to other countries?
What is export?
100
Instead of growing crops only for themselves, farmers began to grow crops to sell, what is this called?
What is commercial farming?
200
Who invented the telegraph?
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?
200
Why couldn't many Americans work on building the railroad?
What is the Civil War?
200
Why were "The Big Four" able to charge such high prices for railroad tickets?
What is little competition?
200
Disagreements and between farmers and railroad companies led to conflicts. One conflict happened where?
What is Mussel Slough?
200
What historical period in California that sped up the development of commercial farms?
What is Gold Rush?
300
Who founded the company that carried mail by stagecoach?
Who is John butterfield?
300
Who was the engineer with a plan for building a transcontinental railroad?
Who is Theodore Judah?
300
At first, how was California's economy affected by the completion of the railroad?
What is cheap goods from outside the state caused some businesses to close?
300
How were people able to able to make farms in the Imperial Valley in the early 1900's?
What is a canal for irrigation from the Colorado River?
300
Who is the herbalist who came to California to look for gold?
Who is Yee Fung Cheung?
400
How did Californians communicate with the East before the Pony Express and stagecoach?
What is -letters carried by ships?
400
What act was passed that allowed companies to get land for every mile of track they laid?
What is Pacific Railroad Act?
400
What group did Leland Stanford belong to?
What is "The Big Four"?
400
Who was a successful wheat farmer from the Central Valley?
Who is John Bidwell?
400
What were some of the challenges the transcontinental railroad workers faced when building the railroad? Name at least 2 challenges.
What is "had to work fast, dangerous conditions, blasting tunnels, Sierra Nevadas?
500
What law helped pay for mail service between Mississippi River and San Francisco?
What is Overland Mail Act?
500
What immigrants laid most of the tracks on the railroad?
What is Chinese and Irish?
500
The Big Four's railroad stretched in many different directions and was nicknamed?
What is "the octopus"?
500
Who was the scientist that worked to develop new and better kinds of plants?
Who is Luther Burbank?
500
Why did Orange growers start to grow the Washington Navel and Valencia oranges?
What is Oranges in California used to be sour and full of seeds?