People
General Reading
About Railroads
100

Whose company made sleeper cars?

George M. Pullman

100

What race was making $40 to $60 a month plus free meals (the most that anyone was being paid)?

White

100

By 1856 the railroads extended west to what river?

Mississippi River

200

Who said the idea of Pullman is "Un-American"?

Richard Ely

200

What form of exchange was promoted when people started linking isolated cities, towns, and settlements with railroads?

Trade

200

Industries like iron, coal, steel, lumber, and what grew?

Glass

300

Who proposed that Earths surface was divided into 24 time zones?

Professor C. F. Dowd

300

This was the first of these built in America, and a golden spike ceremony marked when it was complete.

Transcontinental Railroads

300

Who was disturbed by railroad corruption?

Farmers

400

Who's new train network cut the travel time in half?

Cornelius Vanderbelt

400

A construction company formed in 1864 that shared their stock to about 20 people in congress in 1867.

Credit Mobilier

400

What cause the worst recession in American history?

The Panic of 1893

500

Who linked railroad lines to Florida, to use the warm climate to attract northerners?

Henry Flager

500

What act reestablished the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities and set up a five-member ICC.

Interstate Commerce Act 

500

What reasons were farmers angry with railroad companies?

Misuse of government land grants, kept farmers in debt