'The Line' - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary - Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

‘The Line’ Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

Written as an enrichment/flipped/independent learning activity the worksheet contains a variety of data collection activities for the video.

The episode follows the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad, the first transcontinental rail system, which would unite the eastern and western seaboards of the United States. Started in Sacramento by a consortium of local shopkeepers with no experience in building a railroad, the episode follows their efforts to build from west to east through the forbidding Sierra Nevada mountains with the help of Chinese labourers whilst simultaneously following the efforts of the workers of the Union Pacific to build from east to west, and their problems in dealing with the lawless nature of the Wild West, attacks by hostile Indians, and financial corruption and scandal.

This is a two page document

Included is a 30 Multiple Choice Question Sheet

Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing