Railroads

2. connected the East and west coast and allowed for transportation
7. pulled early train cars
8. this was created as a result to standard railway time
9. linked cotton regions to the north
10. a grant of land by the federal government, especially for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges.
12. authorized the construction of the first continental railroad that connected the atlantic and pacific ocean
13. an engineer and former general who directed the union Pacific railroad.
14. the oldest railroad in the United States /opened in 1830

1. people who worked for George Pullman and was a really good job for African Americans at the time
3. was when a construction company convinced Congress to give them more land grants for a railroad but asked for way more money than they actually needed
4. the man who invented sleeper cars
5. a railroad built from Wisconsin to minnesota to Washington without any federal grants or subsidies.
6. trains that people could sleep on invented by George Pullman
11. immigrants who built most of the railroad in the Pacific and