Summary Practice 1

Trains made circuses more profitable.

Some circuses used to have more than 600 horses.

W.C. Coup partnered with P.T. Barnum in 1871.

Elephants travel on a circus train too.

Circuses made more money using trains.

W.C. Coup is credited as one of the first to use a circus train.

Trains made it easier for circuses to travel.

Circuses grew larger by making more money.

P.T. Barnum was a magnificent showman.

Circuses grew larger because of trains.

Small towns are not a great place to bring your circus.

Moving a circus to another town is fast and easy.

TGV trains move so fast that they are dangerous.

TGV trains have set many speed records.

TGV is short for 'Train a Grande Vitesse'

April 3rd, 2007 was a historic day for trains.

Petrol powered trains can travel pretty fast too.

Electricity powers TGV trains.

TGV are French passenger trains.

TGV are the fastest trains in the world.

A TGV test train reached speeds of up to 357.2 MPH.

The TGV, a French passenger train, is the fastest in the world.

Electricty is much safer and more efficient that petrol fuel.

The French have no translation for the phrase 'Holy Cow.'

Cows used to graze on the open range.

Cowboys fought with cattle rustlers to protect their herds.

The Yankees lived in the Northeast, far from the Southwest.

Trains allowed cowboys to ship cattle across the country.

Easterners paid high prices for beef.

Cowboys brought cows to train stations.

Facing extreme weather was one of the greatest risks of being a cowboy.

Trains brought cows to the East.

Barbed wire ended the open range and the cowboy lifestyle.

Cowboys lived a very dangerous life but made a lot of money.

Trains helped to grow the beef market and create cowboys.

Cowboys robbed trains and stole easy money from passengers.

Labor strikes helped to end the public tram system.

Busses can drive anywhere but a tram has to stay on a track.

Auto companies tried to destroy the public tram system.

Trams require electric tracks and cables to run.

The Great Depression was another reason the tram system ended.

The trams were replaced by busses.

Trams used to be the main form of public transportation.

Car companies worked together to destroy the tram system.

Car companies made public transportation worse to boost their sales.

The Great Depression was a very hard time for most Americans.

Electric trolley cars were inconvient due to needing cables and tracks to run.

The bus system was a great improvement over the electric trolley system.