transcontinental railroad by: stephanie culp take me out to the transcontinental railroad. a...
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Transcontinental Railroad
By: Stephanie Culp
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Take me out to the Transcontinental
Railroad.
• A railroad built to link the East and the West.
• Trans: across
• Continental: land/country
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Take me out to the track
• The Chinese were good workers.
• Some Chinese were even brought over from China.
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Buy me some concerns and doubts
• Some people thought that building a transcontinental railroad would be impossible because they didn’t think that tracks could be laid through the steep Sierra Nevada mountains.
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I don’t care when it gets done
1863-1869
• Work on the railroad began early in 1863.
• It was finally completed in 1869! Yeah!!
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Because, its root, root, root for the Big Four
Collis P. Huntington
Leland Stanford
Charles Crocker
Mark Hopkins
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If they don’t break through the barriers
it’s a shame• Some barriers were…
– The Sierra Nevada Mountains:
The workers had to carve paths, build bridges and blast tunnels in order to get through the mountains.
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Its, one, two, three tracks your out to
California
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rail.html
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If you build it they will come.
• The railroad connected California to the rest of the United States.
• Travel to and from California became faster and less expensive.
• Goods were less expensive because it was cheaper to get them to California.
• Trade increased in the port cities which helped California grow.
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Works Cited • The Big Four
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_FourPictures of the four main contributors to the railroad.
• Harcourt Brace Social Studies Texthttp://hpschool.com
Information about the Transcontinental railroad.
• The Last Railhttp://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rail.html
Information and pictures of the last rail being laid on the Transcontinental railroad.