Railroads & Cow Towns Name:

1. “_______________” to the Indians • - spitting black smoke & moving at stunning speeds • In mining towns, railroads meant: • - _____________ • - more people ( ____ population) • - rapid means of transporting goods & people What were 2 reasons why it was hard to find workers? 1: ________________ 2:__________________ What did farmers begin to use to fence in their crops & property? Why was this HUGE? ___________________________________________________________ • Transcontinental Railroad: _________________________ ______________________________________________ • - 1863 • - Union Pacific: starts in Omaha, Nebraska & goes west • - ______________: starts in Sacramento, Cali & goes east • - Gov’t aided both lines • 1: __________________________________ • 2: __________________________________ Railroads & Cow TownsName: 1. __________________ 2. __________________ 3. No winter feeding needed • Subsidy: financial aid or land grant from gov’t. • _______________: trips where ranchers would corral herds of longhorns & drive them hundreds of miles north to railroad lines • __________: employed by ranchers to tend to cattle/ drive herds to market in good & bad weather • END OF CATTLE KINGDOM • - After time, not enough _____________ to feed all cattle • Ranchers had to now buy feed & drive up cost of • cattle meat as a result • - This lowered cattle population & sales • - 1886 & 1887 _________ killed entire herds of cattle • ____________– severe heat & drought ______________ ____________ • RAILROADS PROMOTE GROWTH • Both companies meet at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869 • ___________dropped in the middle to symbolize the first unity • Important national symbol • WHY?... _____________________________