Summary
A parody song on the transcontinental railroad -- how workers, many of them Chinese and Irish immigrants, linked the country by rail in 1869. A look at a huge project and who built it.
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Discussion
A parody song on the transcontinental railroad -- how workers, many of them Chinese and Irish immigrants, linked the country by rail in 1869.
- What did the transcontinental railroad connect?
- Who did the hard, dangerous work of building it?
- How would a railroad across the country change daily life?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: railroad, immigrant, transcontinental.
Try it: List two ways travel changed once the railroad was finished.