{"id":309,"date":"2014-01-07T23:19:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T23:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/?p=309"},"modified":"2014-01-07T23:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T23:19:29","slug":"transcontinental-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2014\/01\/07\/transcontinental-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcontinental Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of reading the book, Charlie Brown &amp; company have a nice little video that covers this topic nicely, and will likely be remembered far longer then a few pages of dry, oversimplified text.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ef5oVAYWHeo]<\/p>\n<p>Discussion Questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name the company that started building in Omaha, Nebraska?<\/li>\n<li>Name the company that started building in Sacremento, California?<\/li>\n<li>What did the Federal Government promise the railroad companies for building?<\/li>\n<li>Where did the two tracks join?<\/li>\n<li>What is the &#8220;Golden Spike&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>When did building start? When did it end? How many years did it take to complete?<\/li>\n<li>Which President signed the order to start?\u00a0 Who was President when it was completed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/goldenspikephotojpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-310 lazyload\" alt=\"Golden Spike\" data-src=\"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/goldenspikephotojpg-1024x792.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"475\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/goldenspikephotojpg-1024x792.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/goldenspikephotojpg-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/goldenspikephotojpg-768x594.jpg 768w, http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/goldenspikephotojpg.jpg 1280w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 614px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 614\/475;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More Resources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cprr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Pacific Railroad Museum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/today\/may10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Today in History (a .gov website)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/post\/22789973221\/image-description-this-photo-shows-the-joining-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden Spike Photo &amp; information (a .gov website)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/transcontinental-railroad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ducksters.com\/history\/westward_expansion\/first_transcontinental_railroad.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ducksters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PBS Documentary:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/films\/tcrr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Experience Trans Continental Railroad<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;- Video available on YouTube &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ePomo6Tm_rs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kG2zlIH1_CM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of reading the book, Charlie Brown &amp; company have a nice little video that covers this topic nicely, and will likely be remembered far longer then a few pages &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[34,63],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-video","tag-american-history","tag-railroad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}