4. Samuel Morse Pony Express Telegragh transcontinental railroad gold rush Pacific Railroad Act Union Pacific Charles Crocker Grenville Dodge Omaha, Nebraska Sacramento, California Central Pacific Jupiter William Tecumseh Sherman Irish Chinese Prejudice Sierra Nevada Mountains Promontory Point "Done" golden spike time zone Leland Stanford
5. Homestead Act Great Plains Pioneer Sod Buster Exoduster Homesteader John Deere steel plow Nicodemus, Kansas Technology Windmill Joseph Glidden barbed wire Kansas Fever Exodus
27. Westward Expansion The Transcontinental Railroad The train pictured is the Jupiter which carried Leland Stanford, one of the "big four” owners of the Central Pacific, and other railway officials to the Golden Spike Ceremony. Notice the Indians on the hill overlooking the train.
44. Westward Expansion The Transcontinental Railroad Completion of the world’s first transcontinental railroad was celebrated here where the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific met on May 10, 1869.