Ch 7 Transcontinental Railroad Flashcards
Before the 1860s, How did Californians communicate with the East? a by cross country train b by Telegraph c by letters carried on ships D by Overland Stagecoach
c by letters carried on ships
What was John Butterfield’s contribution to California’s growth as a state?
He founded a company that carried mail by Stagecoach
Who were the Big Four?
A group who owned the central Pacific Railroad company
What caused the violence at Mussel Slough?
Farmers and a railroad company disagreed over the price of land.
What enabled people to establish farms in the Imperial Valley in the early 1900s?
Workers built a canal from the Colorado River to irrigate the land.
California farmers began to export wheat to France and Italy. What does the word export mean?
to sell to another country
____ A successful wheat farmer from the Central Valley
John Bidwell
___ One of the big four
Leland Stanford
_____ An engineer with a plan for building a transcontinental railroad
Theodore Judah
___ an herbalist who came to California to look for gold
Yee Fung Cheung
Would commercial farms have developed in California without the gold rush?
Yes the gold rush just sped it up by making more people move to California in a far shorter period of time, leading to great demand for faster transportation in the form of the transcontinental railroad
Who was Yee Fung Cheung?
came to California from China to look for gold, but gave up and became an herbalist
Who was Theodore Judah?
an engineer who was a fanatic of the TCRR, went to the Sierras 23 times to find a path through there
Who was John Bidwell?
first one to go to California by wagon train, grew the best wheat on earth
Who was Luther Burbank?
crossbred seeds to get better seeds
Who were the Big Four?
invested in TCRR, owned the Central Pacific, owned 1/8 land in California, which angered the farmers
Who was John Butterfield?
started the Overland Mail Service
Before the 1860s, how did Californians communicate with the East?
letters sent by ship, Overland Mail Service (1857) took 24 days, Pony Express took 10 days (1860), telegraph took 5 min (1861)
When was farming in the Imperial Valley possible and who did it?
1900, George Chaffey
