Transcontinental Railroad/Expanding West

What technology invented by Joseph Glidden kept animals from eating the farmer's crops?

What is one way to describe the land on the Great Plains

Where di the tracks of the two railroads meet?

What technology used wind power to pump water from deep underground?

What put the Pony Express out of business?

What was one problem faced by the workers who started in Omaha, Nebraska?

How long did the Pony Express last?

What 2 companies were given t he job of building the Transcontinental Railroad

What were African American who left the prejudice in the South after the Civil War called?

What technology invented by John Deere helped settlers plow the land?

What did the U.S. government use to pay the companies to build the railroad?

What was one weather problem faced by settlers?

What was one bad thing about building houses out of sod?

What was one good thing about building houses out of sod?

What was one issue faced by settlers?

How did the U.S government encourage people to move out west to farm?

What was the name of the law that encouraged people to move to the west?

Name one group of people who worked on the Union Pacific railroad.

Leaders of the U. S. government hoped people would move to the Great Plains to do what work?

Who developed the technology for the telegraph?

What was the message sent by the telegraph to announce that the railroad was complete?

Name of the business that began delivering mail from Missouri to California in 1860?

What did people who moved onto the Great Plains in the mid-1800's build their houses out of?

What was the nickname of the Great Plains in the mid-1800's

A large majority of the Central Pacific workers were of what heritage?