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Bureau of Land Management: Steel Rails and Iron Horses

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Read about the building of the first transcontinental railroad and other railroads that came after. Find out how the checkerboard land ownership system affected the railroads. Includes lots of detailed lesson activities as well as a poster.

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railroads
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gilded age, linking the east and west, transcontinental railroads, bureau of land management: steel rails and iron horses, central pacific railroad, milwaukee road, union pacific railroad, industrial america, land grant railroads, railroad line
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
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