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Station 1 - The Transcontinental Railroad - "Locomotive"

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Station 1 - The Transcontinental Railroad - "Locomotive"

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Read the inside cover of Locomotive by Brian Floca. Then answer the following questions:

1. What were the names of the two companies who completed the Transcontinental Railroad?

2. Where did the two companies meet, drive a golden spike, and complete the railroad connecting East and West?

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Watch the video on Cyrus McCormick’s invention of the mechanical reaper and answer the question:

1. How did the mechanical reaper help farmers in the Great Plains turn the area into one of the world's great "Bread Baskets"?

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1. Why was barbed wire an important invention in the Great Plains?
2. Why did settlers in the Great Plains use fencing made of wires instead of wood?

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1. How did the steel plow make farming easier for settlers in the Great Plains?

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Description

John Deere failed as a blacksmith in Vermont but succeeded as an agricultural tool manufacturer in Illinois. His company built revolutionary plows like this early 1838 example. The steel blades of Deere plows slid more easily through sticky prairie soil and made farmers more efficient. John and his son Charles expanded the company through clever marketing and financial acumen making Deere & Company the largest plow manufacturer in the world. The company continue to expand making everything from tractors to combines, from mechanical cotton harvesters to riding lawnmowers.

Location

Currently not on view

Object Name

plow

maker

John Deere

Place Made

United States: Illinois, Grand Detour

Physical Description

wood (part: material)

iron (part: material)

steel (part: material)

Measurements

overall: 380 mm x 460 mm x 1230 mm; 14 15/16 in x 18 1/8 in x 48 7/16 in

ID Number

AG.38A04

catalog number

38A04

F001111

accession number

148904

Credit Line

Gift of Deere and Company, 1938

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John Deere failed as a blacksmith in Vermont but succeeded as an agricultural tool manufacturer in Illinois. His company built revolutionary plows like this early 1838 example. The steel blades of Deere plows slid more easily through sticky prairie soil and made farmers more efficient.

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1. How did the windmill help settlers in the West?

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1 central pacific and union pacific
2 May 10 1869 May 15

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promontory summit was the meating point
union pacific railrod
centrel pacific railrod

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2. union pacific and Central pacific met in Utah

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1.Central Pacific Railroad Company.
2.Union Pacific Railroad Company
3.Promontory Summit

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1.Pacific Railroad Act
2.Union Pacific Railroad Act
3.Promontory Summit

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1. centrall pacific act
2. union centrall pacific act
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1. promitory summit

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The windmills helped setters get water

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1.  union pacific railway compony     central pacific railway compony

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1.  union pacific railway compony     central pacific railway compony

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2.  promontory
summit

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it helped the farmers that were starting off into a buisness  cause they could harvest the wheat faster and then Mc Cormic came up with a humoungus rake that raked everything up

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1. The names where CP and UP
2. It was in UTAH

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1. Central Pacific and Union Pacific 2.Promontory Summit

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1. Central Pacific and Union Pacific 2.Promontory Summit

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The Central Pacific railway Company and Union Pacific Railway company/ promontory Summit,Utah

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The Central Pacific railway Company and Union Pacific Railway company/ promontory Summit,Utah

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1. central pacific railroad company and the union pacific railroad company 2. utah

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it helped get thoru dirt and it is like a lan mower

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it helped get thoru dirt and it is like a lan mower

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ansers

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His invetion made farming wheat supper easy so the bread easy to make.

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His invetion made farming wheat supper easy so the bread easy to make.

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it helped by making it to were they did not have to manually farm there land

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Since there was lots of wheat in the great plains they needed a way to harvest the wheat. The mechanical reaper harvested the wheat that they turned into bread.

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it helped the setelers in the west get water

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it helped the setelers in the west get water

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There was no trees for fences and it it kept their wheat safe.

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2 there were no trees to make a wood fence.

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It made tilling the soil easier.

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1. it helped them crop.

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It pumped water from underground to water their plants.

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It pumped water from underground to water their plants.

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His tool slide easly throw the soil so it made framing easer.

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His tool slide easly throw the soil so it made framing easer.

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the plow helped the farmers clear the dirt cause the dirt was very hard to move because it was clumped together

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The windmill pupped water up from the groud so settelers could use the water.

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The windmill pupped water up from the groud so settelers could use the water.

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The windmill was made for power and water pumps

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1. they put barbed war so there would be no trespassing.
2. they did not use wood becouse there is no trees.

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you can dig crops up faster with a steel plow

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you can dig crops up faster with a steel plow

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slid more easily through sticky prairie soil and made farmers more effiencent

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slid more easily through sticky prairie soil and made farmers more effiencent

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this windmill can water all of your crops with out taking hours and hours to water

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this windmill can water all of your crops with out taking hours and hours to water

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sild more easily through sticky prairie soil and made farmers more efficient

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pumped water and helped crops and made laundry water

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pumped water and helped crops and made laundry water