Workers of the Central and Union Railroad

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Across
  1. 3. Men who connected rails by fastening them together.
  2. 5. Record-setting feat where track crews laid an astonishing distance in a single day.
  3. 6. Nickname some Americans used for Chinese workers because of their beliefs.
  4. 8. Civil War general who became chief engineer of the Union Pacific.
  5. 10. Central Pacific leader who eventually pushed for hiring more Chinese workers.
  6. 11. Serious illness caused by contaminated water; avoided by Chinese workers who drank tea.
  7. 12. Area near Donner Pass where conditions were so brutal workers lived in snow tunnels.
  8. 13. Skilled stoneworkers; Crocker famously argued Chinese could replace striking Irish ones.
Down
  1. 1. Rowdy end-of-track towns full of saloons, gambling, and vice that followed the railroad west.
  2. 2. Workers who drove carts loaded with rails and supplies to the track site.
  3. 4. Foreman who resisted hiring Chinese men at first, then relied on them heavily.
  4. 7. Massacre in 1866 that terrified Union Pacific laborers on the plains.
  5. 9. The “Mountain of Gold” rumored to be waiting in California.
  6. 10. Province in China where many Chinese railroad workers originally came from.
  7. 14. Eastern starting point of the Union Pacific Railroad.