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Video: "Railroads That Tamed the West"

1.What would Abraham Lincoln do at the beginning of the Civil War?
2.How is it described?
3.What were the two railroads involved?
4.How long would the route be?
5.What kind of challenges would it face?
6.How long did it take to build?
7.How many men would be killed or injured in its construction?
8.When was it completed? Where?
9.How long did it take to cross the west by wagon? By train?
10.How is railroad travel described in its early years?
11.What was common?
12.What would strand trains?
13.What were the two cities linked by the transcontinental rail line?
14.What were some defects of the first transcontinental rail line?
15.What happened to many railroad men?
16.How were the railroads ranked in terms of industrial safety?
17.What were the railroad corporations mostly concerned with?
18.What did it mean when the engineer said "take to the birds!"
19.How much were firemen paid?
20.What were they responsible for?
21.What was a problem for the trains in the west?
22.What was a critical factor?
23.What industries today are as important as the 19thcentury railroads?
24.What were three goals of the railroads?
25.What were couplers?
26.How could you tell how much experience a brakeman had?
27.How were trains slowed and stopped in the early days?
28.What would George Westinghouse invent?
29.Why were railroads slow to adopt the use of his technology?
30.What responsibility did railroads show for their injured or killed workers?
31.What was a less costly alternative?
32.What would lead to a change in this approach?
33.What law did Congress pass in 1893?
34.What was the result for railroads?
35.What would wealthy people of the 1870s like to do?
36.What did George Pullman realize?
37.What was his ambition?
38.How much was a 1stclass ticket in 1870 to travel from Nebraska to California? In today's $?
39.What would people eat at rail stops?
40.Who were the people who endured the roughest rides?
41.What were conditions on the trains for them like?
42.What enticed people to take the trains to travel west?
43.How many transcontinental train lines would be built over a 20 year period?
44.What did the federal government do to encourage the building of rail routes?
45.What was most important for the railroads?
46.What would the federal government do in 1862?
47.What would this law provide for?
48.What would railroad company brochures promise?
49.Where did railroads send their pitchmen to recruit passengers?
50.Why did so many Europeans use the railroad lines?
51.How many European immigrants arrived in America between 1850 and 1900?
52.How many would travel on railroads to the west?
53.What power did the railroads create in the west?
54.Why did Denver grow?



		55.Why did other cities in the west die? 56.Why were prairies dug up? 57.What was the real moneymaker for the railroads? 58.What did western railroads allow for, for the first time? 59.What industry developed as a result of railroads? 60.How did railroads change how time would be kept across the nation? 61.When did this occur? 62.What did railroads require more of than any other industry? 63.Who was James J. Hill? 64.How extensive was his empire? 65.What event represented the zenith of American late 19thcentury technology? 66.What technology did Westinghouse provide for at this event? 67.What industry grew up as a result of the railroads? 68.What eventually replaced the steam locomotive engines? 69.What eventually replaced the Pullman cars as passenger vehicles?



		Video: "Railroads That Tamed the West"
		1.What would Abraham Lincoln do at the beginning of the Civil War? 2.How is it described? 3.What were the two railroads involved? 4.How long would the route be? 5.What kind of challenges would it face? 6.How long did it take to build? 7.How many men would be killed or injured in its construction? 8.When was it completed? Where? 9.How long did it take to cross the west by wagon? By train? 10.How is railroad travel described in its early years? 11.What was common? 12.What would strand trains? 13.What were the two cities linked by the transcontinental rail line? 14.What were some defects of the first transcontinental rail line? 15.What happened to many railroad men? 16.How were the railroads ranked in terms of industrial safety? 17.What were the railroad corporations mostly concerned with? 18.What did it mean when the engineer said "take to the birds!" 19.How much were firemen paid? 20.What were they responsible for? 21.What was a problem for the trains in the west? 22.What was a critical factor? 23.What industries today are as important as the 19thcentury railroads? 24.What were three goals of the railroads? 25.What were couplers? 26.How could you tell how much experience a brakeman had? 27.How were trains slowed and stopped in the early days? 28.What would George Westinghouse invent? 29.Why were railroads slow to adopt the use of his technology? 30.What responsibility did railroads show for their injured or killed workers? 31.What was a less costly alternative? 32.What would lead to a change in this approach? 33.What law did Congress pass in 1893? 34.What was the result for railroads? 35.What would wealthy people of the 1870s like to do? 36.What did George Pullman realize? 37.What was his ambition? 38.How much was a 1stclass ticket in 1870 to travel from Nebraska to California? In today's $? 39.What would people eat at rail stops? 40.Who were the people who endured the roughest rides? 41.What were conditions on the trains for them like? 42.What enticed people to take the trains to travel west? 43.How many transcontinental train lines would be built over a 20 year period? 44.What did the federal government do to encourage the building of rail routes? 45.What was most important for the railroads? 46.What would the federal government do in 1862? 47.What would this law provide for? 48.What would railroad company brochures promise? 49.Where did railroads send their pitchmen to recruit passengers? 50.Why did so many Europeans use the railroad lines? 51.How many European immigrants arrived in America between 1850 and 1900? 52.How many would travel on railroads to the west? 53.What power did the railroads create in the west? 54.Why did Denver grow?