Ch.16 Lesson 1 - Rails Across the Nation

1. In the 1850s thousands of miles of _ crisscrossed the East. railroad tracks paved highways 2. The journey to the West by wagon or by ship could take _. two weeks months 3. _ riders traveled in a horse-drawn wagon that traveled in stages, or short sections. Stagecoach Pony Express 4. The _ delivered mail faster than was possible by stagecoach. wagon train Pony Express 5. The _ put the Pony Express out of business. telegraph stagecoach 6. Messages were sent along electrical wires in the form of _. Navajo Code Morse Code 7. People were interested in building the _ to move people and goods across the nation. transcontinental railroad stagecoach 8. Central Pacific workers began building tracks heading _. east west 9. Both the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific had difficulties finding enough _ for the huge project. workers machines 10. Union Pacific workers were challenged by _ when the tracks crossed hunting areas. Native Americans buffalo 11. The railroad was completed when the tracks laid by Central Pacific and Union Pacific workers met at _ in Utah Territory. Promontory Point Salt Lake City Matching Directions - Sequence the events below by matching each date in the first column to the event from that year in the second column. 1858 Stagecoach travel begins 1860 Pony Express delivery begins 1861 Transcontinental telegraph communication begins 1862 Transcontinental railroad construction begins 1869 Transcontinental railroad is completed