Transcontinental Railroad and Immigration

The Dust Storms

The Transcontinental Railroad

The invention of the mechanical reaper

The building of highways

Mississippi River and Hudson Valley Railroad Company

Sacramento and Omaha Railroad Company

Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad Company

Union Pacific and Promontory Point Railroad Company

10

6

7

15

Freedman

The Union Pacific

Scalawags

Central Pacific

less than 1,000

less than 10,000

less than 100,000

less than 1,000,000

Central Pacific Railroad

Plantations

Union Pacific Railroad

Farms and ranches

gave land to RR companies to encourage them to build and finance the Transcontinental Railroad

Moved Native Americans to new homes so the railroads could be built

Gave free land to homesteaders

Helped pioneers kill the buffalo on their land

Central Pacific Railroad

Plantation owners

Union Pacific Railroad

Pony Express

tracks crossed the plains and tunnels through the mountains

coil-burning machines required fuel and more fuel required an increase in

SMOKE from factories and WASTE from processing plants polluted the Earth

All of the above

Railroad companies wanted to starve the Native Americans

People in the east wanted buffalo meat

The buffalo trampled the railroad tracks and damaged them

The Native Americans had too many buffalo