industry II. The railroads A. Growth of railroads B. The transcontinental railroads 1. Pacific Railroads Act (1862) authorized transcontinental line on north-central route a. Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads 2. Labor a. Union Pacific: Civil War veterans, formers slaves, Irish and German immigrants b. Central Pacific: primarily Chinese 3. First transcontinental railroad completed in Promontory, Utah, 1869 4. Other transcontinental railroads C. Financing the railroads 1. Role of the…
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AMERICA MOVING WEST With the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 the United States was stitched together from east to west, this drove down travel costs and brought an end to the dangerous era of traveling by covered wagons along the old trails. The railroads increased the rate at which the west could be settled and by connecting markets increased the size of the nation’s economy, for the first time in American history freight could be shipped from the eastern seaboard all the…
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currency in gold at face value * Closeness of elections in the late 19th century led parties to avoid controversial issues that might alienate voters | Technology: * Pullman Palace Cars made train travel more luxurious * Standardization of railroad gages reduced costs * 1883 brought times zones to maintain schedules * Westinghouse Air Brake increases efficiency and safety in trains * Vanderbilt invents steel rails | Immigration: * Immigrants bring along their religions to the United…
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completion of the transcontinental railroad came dramatic changes to the cattle and mining industries. Cities were being redesigned and immigrant workers along with middle class workers struggled to compete against advanced technology. Family structures and the role of women were re-shaped as technological inventions exploded. As we explore this period of time in our country we see that technology advancements re defined almost every area of American life Without the transcontinental railroad’s completion…
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unionism, first large national union, led successful rail strike in 1885, 8 hour work day, restrictions on child labor, initiative and referendum (common citizens can vote on laws), more cooperative labor-management relations, * Eugene V Debs- socialist- IWW- Industrial Workers of the World * Union for railroad workers * Bread and Butter Unionism * Homestead Strike – lockout strike- against Carnegie Steel * Pullman Strike – between American Railway Union and railroads…
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electric light, the generator, then the electric machine Railroads: Pioneers of Big Business Railroads owed much to the largess of both federal + states gov’ts that granted railroads lands from the public domain First transcontinental railroad finished 1869; four more in 70s and 80s with telegraph lines Transportation and communications worked to create national market that supported mass production and mass marketing 1854, Erie Railroad hired engineer and inventor Daniel McCallum to discover…
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promoters of social justice. The Gilded Age and the first years of the twentieth century were a time of great social change and economic growth in the United States. Roughly spanning the years between Reconstruction and the dawn of the new century, the Gilded Age saw rapid industrialization, urbanization, the construction of great transcontinental railroads, innovations in science and technology, and the rise of big business. Afterward, the first years of the new century that followed were dominated…
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Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was the son of Jane (née Lampton; 1803–1890), a native of Kentucky, and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847), a Virginian by birth. His parents met when his father moved to Missouri and were married several years later, in 1823. He was the sixth of seven children, but only three of his siblings survived childhood: his brother Orion (1825–1897)…
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gov’t mandated them onto reservations, but was ineffective & later died of diseases d) Apache were the most rigid that was directed by Geronimo, and were pursed by the gov’t & held convicted in Florida then OK e) Subdue of the Indians were due to railroads, locomotives, white men diseases (not much resistance) & firewater, and buffalos ( no more nomadic lifestyle) 4) Bellowing Herds of…
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Ended reconstructions, slaves still aren’t exactly free tough. 9/11/13-Moving westward The late 1800s in the American West Transcontinental Railroad Dealing with the Native Americans 1. Transcontinental Railroad-one of the single engineering feats of the US. Fed government offers money and land grants to any company interested in building the railroad. Union Pacific and Central Pacific take the offer. Union Pacific- builds westward from Omaha. The laborers are mostly Irish immigrants…
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