Ways Used to Travel West Before and After Trans. Rail
How Trans. Rail affected Travel West
The West after the Transcontinental Railroad Was Built
The West before the Transcontinental Railroad Was Built
Miscellaneous Changes After the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
100
What was the first form of transportation (other than by foot) used for large groups of people to travel west?
What are Wagon trains?
100
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
What helped settle the west?
100
This drew most of the US population west after its completion.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
A trip would take over six months
How long it took to travel west in a wagon train?
100
This attracted many Chinese and Irish immigrants causing the population to grow.
What is the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
200
This replaced wagon train travel as the preferred method to go west.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad.
200
About how many people went to settle the West after the Transcontinental Railroad was finished?
What is two hundred thousand people?
200
This is how long it took to travel west by Transcontinental Railroad?
About a week.
200
Consider to be the fastest type of transportation before the Transcontinental Railroad?
What are Steamboats?
200
Travel was faster, cheaper, easier, and people thought of America differently.
What are the positive changes of building the transcontinental railroad?
300
What were three ways used to travel west before the Transcontinental Railroad?
What are horseback, by foot, and wagon?
300
Before it took about six months; after, only a week.
How long did it take to travel west before and after the building of the Transcontinental Railroad?
300
They started building from California and Omaha and met at Promontory Point, Utah (Golden Spike Ceremony.)
Where did they start building the Transcontinental Railroad?
300
Track for this railroad started to be laid in 1863 in Omaha.
When did the Transcontinental Railroad start?
300
it cost nearly $1,000 dollars before, then the price dropped to $150 dollars.
How much it cost to travel across the country before and after the Transcontinental Railroad was built?
400
1)The railroad provided a much faster means of transportation.
2)The railroad also decreased the chance of illness and other health problems on the way there.
3)Transportation by wagon was many times more expensive than by railroad.
What were the advantages of railroad travel over other types of travel in that era?
400
Train robberies, Native Americans would destroy the tracks, and poorly maintained tracks.
What are some of the dangers of train travel?
400
It was popular for about 35 years, starting from 1869 and ending in 1904.
How long was the Transcontinental Railroad popular?
400
It was off to a slow start because of a lack of money (investors) and the Civil War was in progress.
What delayed the Transcontinental Railroad being built?
400
We went from a "Divided Nation" to a "United Nation".
How the Transcontinental Railroad changed peoples view of the US?
500
This state is where the transcontinental railroad was completed.
What is Utah?
500
These killed many travelers on their way to the west.
What is disease, bad weather, and Native American attacks.
500
Goods and items used to be built or bought locally, but the completion of the railroad allowed goods to be shipped across the country.
What is a benefit of the Transcontinental Railroad?