Challenges and Progress: Railroads and Industry

Challenges and Progress: Railroads and Industry

Terms to Know

• Transcontinental- extending or going across a continent

• Enormous- very large

• Streetcar- wheeled vehicle that moves along rails in city streets and is used to carry passengers within the city

• Switchboard- a structure used to connect telephone calls manually

  
  

• Contribute- to be one among several causes of an event or development

Multiple Choice

Contribute means-

• to help cause an event

• to show works of art

• to supply products for a store

Multiple Choice

enormous means-

• small

• very large

• something you buy

Multiple Choice

Telephone operators worked at a-

• garage

• business

• switchboard

Multiple Choice

___________________ railroads brought people and products into Texas from across the United States

• suffarage

• streetcar

• Transcontinental

Changes in Transportation and Communication

• Rapid expansion of Texas Railways in the late 1800s increased settlement and promoted the growth of industry

• Some cities, such as San Antonio, began improving roadway systems by paving roads and introducing streetcars

• Several cities established telephone service in the late 1800s. As the years passed, telephone connections continued to expand across the state.

Multiple Choice

The Texas State government promoted the construction of ______ by providing land grants of more than 30 million acres to developers.

• farms

• homesteads

• the telephone

• railroads

Multiple Choice

By the end of the 1800s, there were two__________that ran through Texas.

• transcontinental railways

• freeways

• telephone lines

• rivers

Multiple Choice

In early days of telephones. phone lines were connected by operators working at central___________.

• control centers

• switchbacks

• depots

• switchboards

Multiple Choice

In 1878, Colonel A.H. Belo, publisher of the Galveston News, became the owner of the first_________ in Texas.

• automobile

• mule

• telephone

• streetcar

Texas Industry Develops

• In the late 1800s, new industries, such as meatpacking and cottonseed oil processing, began developing in Texas.

• Railroads helped the expansion of the state's lumbering and mining industries.

Multiple Choice

By 1900, the________ industry was the state's industry.

• meatpacking

• cotton

• lumber

• mining

Multiple Choice

In a __________, the company owned most of the workers' homes and the stores where they shopped.

• ghost town

• ghetto

• tenant town

• company town