RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Railroads had Native Americans sent to reservations.
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Railroads had guards protect the rails.
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Railroads hired sharpshooters to kill the buffalo
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The railroads made transportation of buffalo hides easy and cheap, so market hunters flooded in, wasting three to five times the numbers they killed. The carnage from herds already depleted by other factors defied description: 4-5 million killed in three years alone.
Detailed explanation-2: -"Buffalo” Bill Cody, who was hired to kill bison, slaughtered more than 4, 000 bison in two years.
Detailed explanation-3: -Their story is inextricably tied to the history of America’s first transcontinental railroad. Hundreds of thousands of bison were slaughtered by hunters, travelers and U.S. troops. Trains shipped bison carcasses back east for machine belts, tongues as a delicacy, and bones as fertilizer.
Detailed explanation-4: -The building of the Transcontinental Railroad relied on the labor of thousands of migrant workers, including Chinese, Irish, and Mormons workers. On the western portion, about 90% of the backbreaking work was done by Chinese migrants.