Westward Expansion and the Transcontinental Railroad
By:Aleister Ham
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Chapter 1:All About the Transcontinental Railroad Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark Westward Expansion
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Chapter 2:All about the transcontinental Railroad Supplis How was it bight workers
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Chapter 3:Impact theme
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Chapter 1:All about Westward Expansion Westward Expansion was famous because it changed the face of the United states.
louisa puchis In 1803 president Thomas Jefferson made a deal will France to buy the louisiana Purchase for $15 millon.It was 828,800 sqare miles.Of unknow land lewis and Clark traveld by the Mississippi River to the rockey Montains.It also doubled the size of the United States.Tomas Jefferson now owns 44 states.The louisana Purchase Was for Lewis and Clark to explor.
Lewis and Clark After Thomas Jefferson bought the land he asked Captain Meriwether Lewis to exploerthe land with Willm Clark and 40 ather men.It began on May 14,1804. Lewis and Clark fond 178 new kinds of plant and about 100 new animals.Thomas Jefferson wanted to find a water route to the pacific ocean .A native american woman named Sacagawea jond to be as interpreter. She made friends,and traded with other tribes.Next waest ward expachin begins.
Westward expansion Westward expansion began in the 1800’s,The pioneers trend they faces to the land of golden promise tha that lay far beyond the Rocky mountains.Free land for farms ranch, gold,religious freedom. the organ tail was for finding land.California trail was used to find gold.Santa Fe trail was used for trade.some did not survive on the do to the insects ,disease and rough weather.And soen the workers got to work.
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Chapter 2: In 1804 on a sunny hot day,Chin Chapter 2: ese workers got to work on the trancontan railroad .Some soldiers were egea to work on the railroad after the civil war.The railroad conti between the north and the west. On January 8,1863,Workers got to work laying 30,000 steel bars a day for $32,000 per mile.President Abraham lincoln signed the act of the pacific railroad of 1862.the transcontin railroad was the fastest transfer tachin to the wes caring solers supplies to place to place. The Golden spike was the last nail driven in to bring the two railroad together in Promontory Utah,in the time of 1869. All about transcontinental railroad Life on the Trancontanl railroad was hard work.Because the men had to find much of the stuff.The workers had to get the still,wood,gold,cole,hammers,pickaxes,rock.The workers work in groups so that everyone had a job to do each day.Like the saveyors tath map out the route and the graders that cleard the rocks and trees from the path and laved the hilles,anther crew befind came with the rails and laid the rails,next came wokes with hammers that hammerd the spicks in to place.Finaley the last crew had to statin the rails.Thar is also a mitias. Thar was more then 20,000 crew wockeres.The trail was tough and hard for the wockers such as Irish and chines but much of the track was laid by mormons.The gold spike was the last nail drivin in to join the Pacific railroad and the Uounin railroad.They stated bilding on January 8,1863,stoped on May 10,1869.It took them 6 years 4 months and 2 days,to get it done.The Oregon trail was not used after the Transcontantal Railroad was done becuase the Transcontantal Railraod was the fastest transpertachin to the west.People did not waht to travel in slow wagons trains. Chapter 3:Impact and theme The Transcontinental Railroad had a big impact in our lives to make it easier travel. The transcontinental railroad change the world for ever. The legacy of the The Transcontinental Railroad was hard for the workers to pass through a lot of Hardships. 3
Glossary MitiasGroup of men trained to fight dangers. Transcontinental Stretching across a continent. Interpretersomeone who can speak a different ledwich. SpickA big nail that is very heavy. Bibliography Ducksters,”westward Expansion’’2016,online 1/8/2016. www.Ducksters .com ‘ Domnauer,’’Teresa.Life in the west”.New York.scholastic,child press 2010. landau elaine,”The transcontinental railroad,New York,2005. 4