Railroads Of California
Across
- 2. Chinese workers made this drink with boiling water and it kept them healthy.
- 7. The Chinese _______ act was barred Chinese immigrants from coming to America.
- 10. Train engineer visionary nicknamed"Crazy _____."
- 11. Amount a railroad ticket from New York To San Francisco cost.
- 14. It was a struggle to find a pass for the railroad to go through this California mountain range.
- 15. 3,000 Chinese went on ____ to protest unfair and unequal working conditions on the Transcontinental Railroad.
- 16. This ethnic group ruled China under the Qing dynasty.
Down
- 1. This color of spike was driven into the earth in 1869 to celebrate the completion of the railroad from East to West coast.
- 3. In 1885 all the Chinese citizens of this Humboldt County city were forced to move.
- 4. This was the style Chinese men wore their hair in.
- 5. The common name for the Zhonghua Huiguan (Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association), a successful lobbying group that fought for the rightsof Chinese immigrants.
- 6. The name of the female empress who took the throne in 1861 in China at the age of 26.
- 8. Alternative name for empress Tzu Hsi of the Qing dynasty
- 9. This immigrant group worked also worked building the railroad with the Chinese and Italians.
- 12. the three word nickname for Leland Standford, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington, the financiers of the Transcontinental railroad.
- 13. Chinese workers used dynamite and pickaxes to carve these in mountains for the railroad to pass through.