Transcontinental Railroad Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- trees : there are not a lot of _ on the great plains
- trans : means "across"
- telegraph : how did the country find out that the railroad companies were "done?"
- land : each railroad company was paid money and given _ along the railroad tracks
- point : the railroad companies met at promontory _ , utah
- gold : the last spike was made of _
- immigrant : person who moves to another country
- blizzard : lots and lots of snow and wind that made building the railroads very difficult
- continent : transcontinental means "across the _ "
- chinese : irish and _ immigrants were important workers on the transcontinental railroad
- railroad : another word for train; began to crisscross the country in the 1860's
- plains : more and more people began to settle the great _ after the building of the transcontinental railroad
- native : as more and more people moved out west, the _ americans were constantly pushed off of their land
- mountains : large elevations of land that railroad companies had to blast through
