… All Aboard Camp Internet for our California Backcountry Railroad Dig ! Today we will be exploring how and where the Central Pacific Railroad was built, who managed the project, and whose labor brought it to become one of the most amazing engineering feats in the history of the United States.
Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:48AM PST (-0800 GMT)
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:49AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #1 – Who was the engineer that first conceived of the railroad and then surveyed the Sierras to find the most likely passage to the east ?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:49AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #2 – When this engineer couldn’t find financial backers in Washington DC, or in San Francisco, what city did he go looking for backers in ? And why was there any money for investments in the city he chose ?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:49AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #3 – What are the names of the four men who became the Central Pacific Railroad backers ? And what types of businesses did they run in California ? button
Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:50AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #4 - Were these four businessmen millionaires when the project began ? Were they millionaires after the project was completed ?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:50AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #5 – In order to make sure the project was supported in California, one of these Big Four was elected to become California’s Governor. Which One ?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:50AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #6 – What legislation in Washington was passed to fund the railroad’s construction and when?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:50AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #7 – which President signed the legislation ?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:51AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #8 - This federal funding would pay the Big Four different dollars per mile of track laid, depending on if it was in the Central Valley or the Sierra Nevada mountains and backcountry. Which location were they paid the MOST to lay track through ?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:51AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #9 – In order to get paid the most, the Big Four arranged to have the point where the Sierras begin re-surveyed in the hopes of gaining more money by being shown to have laid more track in the mountains. What was the result of this survey ? And how much extra money did the survey results bring them ?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:51AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #10 – what happened to the original engineer for the project ?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:51AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #11 – read this newspaper announcement of the time and tell us what it says. button
Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:52AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #12 – who managed the day-to-day operations of actually BUILDING the railroad ? Read both of these to find out the answers please.
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:52AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #13 - who was hired to provide the intense labor of carving out the path of the railroad from solid granite, and to lay the track through the backcountry ?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:52AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #14 – why were people from this specific country hired for the project ?
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:53AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #15 read of the amazingly hard work they had to perform, then chose one of their remarkable efforts and describe it to us here in the Dig.
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Camp Internet Team: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 7:53AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig question #16– Once they made it through the California Backcountry and headed east across Nevada and Utah, what was the meeting place where the western and eastern lines of track were to meet ? And what action symbolically united the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts at this meting place ?
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Nicole/Miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:13AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Question # 4
When the project began the four buissnessmen were not millionaries.
After the project was completed the four buissenessmen were millioneaires.
katie/miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:18AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 Sacramento
katie/miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:19AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 Sacramento
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Khasey/miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:20AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2
they found judah in sacramento
Khasey/miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2
they found judah in sacramento
Brittany/Miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 They
katie/miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#4 When the project began the four buissnessmen were not millionaries. After the project was completed the four men were millioneaires.
Khasey/miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:24AM PST (-0800 GMT)
hi
Brittany/Miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:24AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 They found Judah in Sacramento
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#7 The president was Abraham Lincoln who signed the legislation.
Khasey/miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:26AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2
they found judah in sacramento
katie/miramonte : . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:27AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#7 The president was Abraham Lincoln who signed the legislation.
Nicole/Miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:28AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Question # 7
The president who signed the legislation was Abraham Lincoln.
Khasey/miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 4, 10:28AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#7 The president was abrham lincoln
Christian/Miramonte: . . . . Wed, Mar 5, 10:15AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Which president signed the legislation?
Abraham Lincoln signed the legislation.
Sonia & Jordan: . . . . Wed, Mar 5, 10:15AM PST (-0800 GMT)
It was Crocker who managed the day-to-day operations of actually BUILDING the railroad.
Sonia & Jordan: . . . . Wed, Mar 5, 10:16AM PST (-0800 GMT)
It was Crocker who managed the day-to-day operations of actually BUILDING the railroad.
Christian/Miramonte: . . . . Wed, Mar 5, 10:17AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#7 Abraham Lincoln signed the legislation.
Sonia & Jordan: . . . . Wed, Mar 5, 10:19AM PST (-0800 GMT)
They found Judah in Sacremento!!!
Sonia & Jordan: . . . . Wed, Mar 5, 10:22AM PST (-0800 GMT)
The president who signed the legislation was Abraham Lincoln
Mark/Miramonte: . . . . Wed, Mar 5, 10:24AM PST (-0800 GMT)
I'm so popular.
Jacob/Miramonte: . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 8:35AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Theodore Judah
Ker/Miramonte: . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 8:36AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Theodore Judah
Cody/miramonte: . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 8:46AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Theodore Judah
Jacob/Miramonte: . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 8:53AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Sacramento
Cody/miramonte: . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 8:53AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Sacramento
Ker/Miramonte: . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 8:54AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Theodore Judah
Ker/Miramonte: . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 8:59AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Sacramemto
Cody/miramonte: . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 9:04AM PST (-0800 GMT)
they were millionaires
Cody/Miramonte: . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 9:05AM PST (-0800 GMT)
yes
Cody/Miramonte: . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 9:06AM PST (-0800 GMT)
yes
Ker/Miramonte: : . . . . Fri, Mar 7, 9:10AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Yes
moses & mark/Miramonte: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 10:41AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 Theodore Juddah went to Sacramento to look for backers.He gave it all out.
Alan Martinez: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 10:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
The four Sacramento businessmen would soon become four of the wealthiest millionaires in the State of California,
Judah setled in sacromento for the investment
moses & mark/Miramonte: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 10:46AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#7 The president that signed the legislation was Abraham Lincoln.
Alan Martinez: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 10:49AM PST (-0800 GMT)
on the first trans-continental railroad), he contracted yellow fever and died two days after landing in New York on November 1,1863. He was then thirty-seven.
Leanna/Miramonte: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 10:50AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Theodore Judah went to Sacramento to look for backers.
Alan Martinez: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 10:50AM PST (-0800 GMT)
the legislation was signed by Abraham Lincon
megan/Miramonte: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 10:54AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 Theodore Judah went to Sancramento to get backers. He interested four mrchants
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Hi
Alan Martinez: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 11:00AM PST (-0800 GMT)
The Big Four had, in two years:
· Taken over the position of California governor
· Taken over the position of Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court
· Raised over $1 million in public money
· And had 'moved mountains' to get their project financed
Leanna/Miramonte: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 11:00AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#3 They were Charles Crocker, Collis Huntingtun, Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford. Crocker who sells clothing and carpets,Huntington and Hopkins 49ers who were partners that was in a profitable hardware business,and Stanford a lawyer who opened a grocery store and feed store.
Moses & Mark/miramonte: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 11:03AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#8 He had yellow fever and then died two days later in New York on November 1,1863 when he was 37.
Leanna/Miramonte: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 11:03AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#4 NO THEY WEREN'T MILLIONAIRES.
Megan/Miramonte: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 11:04AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#3 Charles Crocker sold clothing and carpets, Collis Huntington
and Mark Hopkins origonal 49ers who were partnersin a hardware buisness that sold mining supplies, Leland Stanford a lawyer who opened up a grocery and feed store
Nicole/Miramonte: . . . . Mon, Mar 10, 11:04AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Question # 4
The four buisnessmen were not millionaires before the project began. When the project was finished the four buisnessmen were famos.
Christian/Miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 11, 10:18AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#4 Those 4 buisness men were not millionaires, they were only famous after the project was done.
Pa/Miramomonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 11, 10:19AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#4 No the four merchants - not yet millionaires - when his projects began. Yes they are millionaires when his project was finished.
Leo/Jefferson: . . . . Tue, Mar 11, 10:20AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Hi people
Pa/Miramomonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 11, 10:25AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#7 It's was Abraham Lincoln, who sigh the legislation.
Christian/Miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 11, 10:25AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 Theodre Juddah left to get some backers from Sacramento.
Christian/Miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 11, 10:26AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 Theodre Juddah left to get some backers from Sacramento.
Sonia & Jordan: . . . . Tue, Mar 11, 10:35AM PST (-0800 GMT)
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Pa/Miramomonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 11, 10:37AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#3 It was Charles Crocker, Collis Huntingtun, Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford. Charles, who sold clothing & carpets,Leland, a lawyer who opened the feed & grocery store and the last 2 were Collis Huntington and Mark Hopkins who's are 49ers were partnersin hardware that sellmining tools.
Christian/Miramonte: . . . . Tue, Mar 11, 10:40AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#10 Tthe engineer died 2 days after landing in New York. He died because he had yellow fever on November 1, 1863. He was only 37 when he died.
katie,nicole/miramonte: . . . . Thu, Mar 13, 10:11AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#8 The Sierra Nevada mountains range was payed the most with $48.00 and the Central Valley was payed $16.00.
katie,nicole/miramonte: . . . . Thu, Mar 13, 10:16AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#10 In the three years of their association, the Big Four had learned from Judah where to build the railroad, how to build it, and most important, how to fund it with someone else's money for their own personal profit.
khasey/miramonte: . . . . Thu, Mar 13, 10:18AM PST (-0800 GMT)
they found the backers in San Francisco.
katie,nicole/miramonte: . . . . Thu, Mar 13, 10:23AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#11 On Monday in novemder 2,1863 a man named Theodore Judah died over a typhiod fever,And his son died too.
khasey/miramonte: . . . . Thu, Mar 13, 10:23AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#8 The Sierra Nevada mountains range was payed the most with $48.oo and the Central Valley was payed $16.00.
Katie,Nicole/miramonte: . . . . Thu, Mar 13, 10:25AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#12 It was Crocker who managed the day-to-day operations of actually BUILDING the railroad.
khasey/miramonte: . . . . Thu, Mar 13, 10:28AM PST (-0800 GMT)
4.The 4 buisness men werent millionaires before the project.
nathan: . . . . Thu, Mar 13, 10:29AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#4 the answer is they were millionars before
nathan: . . . . Thu, Mar 13, 10:30AM PST (-0800 GMT)
hey dis' is tite
khasey/miramonte: . . . . Thu, Mar 13, 10:32AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#3 On Monday in November2,1863
Sean and Jacob/miramonte: . . . . Mon, Mar 17, 11:02AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Abraham Lincoln had just been elected president in November of 1860 and Judah assured the Crocker-Huntington-Hopkins-Stanford interests that Congress would now be ready to approve a major railroad project now that a strong anti-slavery president was in the White House. In fact, it was Judah himself, and engineer by trade, who taught his investors the ways to receive extensive subsidies from the government to offset the majority of costs to build this remarkable railroad.