1. The building of the railroads

2. a song about our topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEe9DF_mUEI
Vocabulary definitions Bellwork:
Mortality: the state or condition of being subject to death
Indentured: a contract by which a person, as an apprentice, is bound to service. In America, they received passage to the New World in exchange for labor
Cultivate: to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops
Indispensable: absolutely necessary or essential
Doctrinal: relating to doctrine, which is a policy taught or advocated

3. The Building of the first railroads
railroad/videos/american-railroad
Why are the building of the Erie Canal and the construction of the Baltimore & Ohio related?

4. The building of the transcontinental railroad--according to Charlie Brown

5. Points of importance: •Symbolism after the civil war •Union pacific: (the hare) from Omaha, Ne West •central pacific (the tortoise) from sacramento, CA EAST •1800 miles across rivers, deserts and mountains •$16,000-48,000 per mile of track Land grants given to companies

6. Central pacific: relied heavily on chinese immigrants
The workers
Union pacific: used former slaves and civil war soldiers, immigrants from germany and ireland and cowboys
Central pacific: relied heavily on chinese immigrants

7. What it was like to build:

8. Activity--
You will be in groups to examine 3 primary sources about the completion of the railroad. Your assignment is to figure out what the completion of the railroad meant to americans at that time.

9. Summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzo6Otpgj-E
Last 5 minutes of Charlie Brown version