Chapter 7 Lesson 2 Flashcards
What was the transcontinental railroad?
A railroad that crossed the US
Why did people like the idea of a transcontinental railroad? what did they think it would improve?
1because it could connect CA
2 transportation and TRADE
Who was Theodore Judah?
A young man a engineer-plans and build railroads
What did Judah know would be the hardest part of the Transcontinental railroad?
Crossing the Sierra Nevadas
What is “invest” mean?
Is to buy something such as a share or part of a company in the hope that it will be worth it in the future
Who did Judah find to invest in building the transcontinental railroad? What did they become know as?
1Leland Stanford 2 Collis P.Huntington 3 Mark Hopkins 4 Charles Crocker The Big Four
What company did Judah and the big four start?
The Central Pacific Railroad
What is a civil war?
A war between groups of people in the Same country
Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act. What did this lAct do?
Provided money and LAND for the central pacific railroad
what were the 2 companies building the railroads?
central pacific RAilroad
union pacfic
What was one of the first problems the railroads building faced?
The civil war and the lack of workers
WHo did the railroad hire to work for them building the tracks?
The Chinese and Irish
Did the chinese and Irish immigrants make a lot of money building the railroad tracks?
No
Describe working on the railroads?
Dirty and dangerous
How did the US government try to speed up the track building?
By giving them thousands of acres of land and lend money to them based on the amount of track that the company laid- IT BECAME A COMPETITION!
