PPT-Transcontinental Railroad:

US History Spiconardi Origins In order to connect the newly expanding West with the rest of the country the federal government wanted to extend the railroads To encourage the building of railroads the government offered. Road To Freedom . dbays. /teacherspayteachers.com. Underground Railroad. . (UGRR. ) is a term for the network of people and places who assisted fugitive slaves as they escaped from slavery in the South. The Growth of Railroads. Before the Civil War, most of the railroad track in America had been built in the Eastern USA, especially in the Northeast.. Gold was discovered in the West and people slowly began migrating westward.. The President of the Underground Railroad.. Where did most escape routes lead to?. Canada. What was the person who lead runaways called?. The Conductor. What was Harriet Tubman’s nickname?. Moses of the Underground. Mr. Babcock. 7. th. Grade Social Studies. Westward Expansion and the Mining Booms. A New Gold and Silver Rush. After the gold rush of the 1840s and 1850s came to an end, prospectors began looking in new locations across the West. Road To Freedom . dbays. /teacherspayteachers.com. Underground Railroad. . (UGRR. ) is a term for the network of people and places who assisted fugitive slaves as they escaped from slavery in the South. SANDY UPDATE - CPOC. April 2014. Superstorm. Sandy. October 2012. Storm Damage. SIGNIFICANT WIND/TREE DAMAGE KNOCKED OUT SERVICE ALONG HARLEM LINE AND NEW HAVEN LINE and the NEW CANAAN AND DANBURY BRANCHES . Linking East and West. pages 222-226. EQ: How did the telegraph helped Americans communicate? Explain how the transcontinental railroad was built and its effects on the nation?. Vocabulary Preview. Transcontinental: going across a continent. Railroad. By: Anthony ,Brent, Duncan, Cade. What was the transcontinental . railroad?. It is a system of railroads that starts in California and it helped travelers go out west without having to ride in a . Stagecoach lines. Transcontinental railroad. 2. 1835 advertisement for 5-hour travel between Baltimore, MD, and Washington D.C. . Early long-distance travel was usually by stagecoach. It could be very unpleasant in poor weather, with careless drivers, and on muddy and bumpy roads.. Railroad from Atlantic to Pacific. Transcontinental Railroad. 1850’s - railroad companies began to search for a route from Atlantic to Pacific . (transcontinental). The South wanted it through the South. Remember what we discussed in 2.1b? About Native Americans?. ***During and after the . Civil War the . US entered a period of rapid economic growth. ****We expanded out West very rapidly. ***Growth . Corey’s Underground Railroad Dairy. By Sharon Dennis Wyeth. Zahir Uddin. . . 1 Cup of Plot. This story is about a boy and his family going to Canada .His family is in a town called Amherstburg and lives in a church. They get a life by working ,his father Some people gave them some land . Sit at the same group with your partner.. Bell-Ringer. First, the partner who read the . Homestead Act of 1862. should summarize what he/she read and go over the answer to each of the questions to help explain the . What is a Community? A community may be big or small. It is a group of people living in the same place that often have something in common. A community may center around a town or an industry. Others are created around ethnicity or religion. Your family, school, neighborhood, town, and even your state are different types of communities.