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Rails Across the Nation

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Pony Express 1860 - delivered mail from Missouri to California in 10 days; like a 2000 mile relay race
telegraph sent messages along wires using electricity; put the Pony Express out of business-October 1861
Samuel Morse inventor who developed a code to send telegraph messages - Morse Code; built the 1st working telegraph
Transcontinental Railroad railroad built across the continent linking the East and West coasts of the U.S.; 1862-1869
Union Pacific Railroad Company company that built the Transcontinental Railroad, beginning in Omaha, NB then west toward Utah
Central Pacific Railroad Company company that built the Transcontinental Railroad, beginning in Sacramento, CA then east toward Utah
Red Cloud a Lakota chief who was angry at the Union Pacific workers because the railroad construction was disturbing their hunting grounds and scaring away the buffalo
Union Pacific workforce Irish immigrants, former Confederate Army soldiers, and former slaves
Sierra Nevada Mountains natural obstacle faced by the Central Pacific Railroad company
Central Pacific workforce Chinese immigrants (80%)
Promontory Point Utah territory location where the tracks of the Union Pacific met with the Central Pacific, completing the Transcontinental Railroad; May 10, 1869
stagecoach horse-drawn carriages used by travelers
What was the main purpose for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad? transport goods and people across the country (faster, safer, cheaper)
dynamite used by the Central Pacific to blast tunnels through the Sierra Nevadas
Explain the competition between the Central Pacific and Union Pacific. They raced against each other to build more miles of track. They were paid by the mile.
locomotive synonym for train
"iron horse" name used by the Native Americans of the Great Plains to describe trains
"iron roads" name used by the Native Americans of the Great Plains to describe the train tracks
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