March 12, 2012 Day 134
LA Book: 1 page
Math Books: 2 pages, *History
3 x 6
Transcontinental Railroad
Vocabulary
1. Transcontinental: Passing or extending across a continent
2. Railroad: A permanent road laid with rails commonly
paired in a line forming a track in which locomotives run on
3. Terrain: A tract of land especially as considered with
reference to its natural features.
Sentences
1. The first transcontinental railroad was known originally
as “The Pacific Railroad.”
2. The construction and operation of the line was authorized
by the Pacific Railroad acts of 1862 and 1864 during the American Civil War.
3. The construction workers building the railroad had to cut
down any rough terrain in their way.
Facts & Details
1. The Transcontinental Railroad was basically the internet
of the nineteenth century
2. The Transcontinental Railroad was the start of the
Industrial Revolution of America
3. The Railroad was also used for transporting goods and
commerce to the west from the east
3 Questions
1. Who introduced the first plan for an American transcontinental
railroad to the Congress? A: Asa Whitney introduced the railroad to congress in
1845
2. What did the new railroad tracks replace in the American
landscape? A: The wagon Tracks on the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails
3. How long and how much money did it take to travel by
trail from Omaha to San Francisco in 1870? A: 65 dollars
Images
Sites
3 x 6 fugitive Slave
Act of 1850
Vocabulary
1. Fugitive: Haven taken flight or run away
2. Abolitionist: Especially prior to the Civil War a person
who advocated or supported the abolition of slaves in the U.S
3. Affidavit: a written declaration upon oath made before n
authorized official.
Sentences
1. The fugitive slave act claimed that all runaway slaves
would be returned to their masters; this law was passed because they were
trying to avoid war.
2. The abolitionists nicknamed the Fugitive Slave Act the
“Bloodhound Law” because they would use dogs to track down the runaway slaves.
3. Slave owners to needed to supply an affidavit to a
Federal Marshall to capture an escaped slave.
Facts & Details
1. After a few months after the fugitive slave act, 3,000
slaves flooded across the northern border, they called the North, Freedoms land
2. Over the next ten years, over 40,000 black Americans
would move there
3. Most of the slaves were fugitive, but some were free who
flee because they had no right under the law to a jury trial or to testify in
their own defense
Questions
1. What did the new Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 proclaim? A:
That all slaves that have run away were to be returned to their owners
2. What were some of the punishments and rewards associated
with the Fugitive Slave Act? A: the law made any Federal Marshall or another
official who did not catch a runaway slave would be liable to a fee of 1,000
dollars, A free slave could not ask for a jury trial or testify in his or hers
beliefs
3. Summarize Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850: Henry Clay was
looking for a solution over the dispute of slavery in 1850. Henry wanted to
keep the Union together. Henry pointed out the issues: There was a vast new
territory of land in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. There was a whole lot of
new land in California because of the 1849 Gold Rush. And finally, there were
slaves aloud in Washington D.C and it was the number one slave market in the
country. In 1850, Clay proposed the compromise which created that balance of
equal power on each side.
Images
Sites
Imagine, they blew tunnels through mountains with only dynamite and no machines. Most of the workers coming from the East were Irish immigrants; many were escaping the Irish Potato Famine. Most of the workers from the West were Asians, mostly of Chinese descent. To make way for the railroad, the government allowed the railroad to take 3 acres on each side of the tracks from farmers, who did not get paid for their lost farm land.
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