Railroads
The railroad that connected the East to the West.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Pioneers traveled to this state in search of gold.
What is California?
This animal that was killed in order to build the railroad.
What were the buffalo?
The cheap land located here was often dry and poor for farming.
What is the Great Plains?
The land the gov't forced the Native American to live on.
What were reservations?
The Transcontinental Railroad allowed people to travel from the East coast to the West coast in _______ days.
What is 10 days?
The company who built the transcontinental railroad WEST starting in Omaha, NB.
What was the Union Pacific?
Besides mountains, where else did people look for gold?
What are rivers or streams (water)?
_________ were hired to protect the railroad workers from Native American Attacks
Who were soldiers?
This technology helped pump water from deep underground for framing.
What was the windmill?
True of False:- the traditions of Native Americans were honored and protected by the US Government
What is False
The transcontinental railroad helped foster _______ and ______ growth
Who are trade and economic?
The name of the company that built the transcontinental railroad EAST starting in Sacramento, CA.
What was the Central Pacific?
What was the nickname for pioneers traveling west for gold? This is also the name of an NFL football team
Who are 49ers?
This group of railroad workers experienced severe discrimination as they settled on the Great Plains.
Who were the Chinese?
People who took advantage of the cheap land through the Homestead Act were called______.
What is lacrossse?
The trains of the transcontinental railroad required lots of fuel which led to an increase in __________
What is mining?
The railroad company that built more miles of track.
What was the Union Pacific?
This is the technique people used to "pan" for gold
What is panning?
These large rushes of snow/ice were a major obstacle for workers working on the Central Pacific.
What are avalanches?
The method of farming on the Great Plains states that attempted to overcome the lack of rain and the abundance of windstorms.
What was dry farming?
This ACT provided people with access to cheap land in the Great Plains
What was the Homestead Act?
This city was known as the "Gateway to the West".
What is St. Louis?
The two companies who built the transcontinental railroad connected each other's tracks in this state.
What is Utah?
Abandoned mining communities.
What are ghost towns?
This group of immigrants helped used explosives to help build tunnels through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
What were the Chinese?
The invention the was a substitute for wooden fencing. Hint-Cowboys/ranchers didn't like it.
What was barbed wire?
What are 3 reasons people moved west?
What is:
cheap land, gold rush, religion, start new lives, escape segregation laws?
Reasons Pioneers moved out West:
What are:
Gold, Manifest Destiny, Start New Lives, Escape segregation laws