Rise of Mass Society Mass society arose in the Gilded Age in many ways. People moved back to the cities for many reasons. Farmers were forced to relocate because of the production of heavy machinery‚ the educational‚ medical care‚ and just sheer leisure that the city could offer. With the additional people who had moved into the city also came concern for sanitation. The population of New York City doubling each decade it created for an unsanitary condition as the infrastructure was not adequate
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politician‚ and railroad builder. Dodge was born in 1831 in Massachusetts‚ and in 1850 graduated from a military school as a civil engineer. He later became a surveyor of railroad routes in Iowa‚ Illinois‚ and Nebraska. He then married in 1854 and moved further west for Council Bluffs. In 1859 Grenville Dodge and Abraham Lincoln met by chance in Council Bluffs‚ Iowa. As they spoke he assured the president that in the future Platte Valley would be the route of the Pacific Railroad. As promised‚ 7
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Chinese Immigration to the U.S. First Chinese to arrive in the U.S. was around 1820. Subsequent Chinese immigrants who came from the 1820s up to the late 1840s were mainly men. In 1852‚ the ratio of Chinese males to females in California was 1‚681:1. Due to the lack of Chinese women in the U.S. at that time‚ a number of men intermarried with Americans of Eastern European descent. However‚ the majority of male immigrants lived as bachelors. The first major immigration wave started around the
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spurred the Chinese on to immigrant quicker. After the Gold Rush‚ Chinese immigrants moved to the Railroad industry. (Asian) Around this time was when the Transcontinental Railroad was begun. The Central Pacific Railroad‚ working from the west‚ hired any Chinese to build their part of the railroad. (A Chinaman’s) The Chinese had to level ground‚ lay tracks‚ and blast tunnels through where the railroad would run. (A Chinaman’s) The Chinese were well known for their cheap labor. By 1867‚ the Chinese
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plans of reconstruction of the Union were on the minds of every government official as their first priority‚ or so it seemed (Phillips 108). Everyone that is except Oakes Ames‚ a manufacturer‚ capitalist‚ and an elected member of the thirty-eighth Congress of the second district of Massachusetts (Brazad 251). After the war anything that would boost patriotism was passed by Congress and a transcontinental railroad was an ideal means by which to bind up the wounded Union (Phillips 107). Ames‚ in a way
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Theodore Judah & the Big 4- who were involved in the Trans Continental Railroad For the Trans Continental Railroad none of the bills passed because a route could not be decided on. Northerners and southerners argued about where the route would be‚ northerners wanted a northern route and southerners wanted a southern route. Congress would also fight over whether slavery should be permitted at all in the new states. In 1848 Sutter’s mill in California had a flow of people coming in because of
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“How important were railways in opening up the West?” (50 marks) The world’s first transcontinental railway came into being on the 10th of May 1869‚ after 6 years of intense manual labouring‚ much of which had occurred during the tumultuous years of the American Civil War. As it entailed a huge 1907 mile route – beginning at San Francisco Bay‚ and ending in Iowa on the Missouri River – the line could be described as monumentally important as it travelled through six of the 37 existing states‚ and
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the construction of a transcontinental railroad. This started the Industrial Revolution by igniting a new need for innovation. Work on the railroad started right away‚ but there was an enormous pressure on the railroad companies to finish so the railroad would be functional. The desire for completion caused an accelerated Industrial Revolution because railroad companies needed to develop new inventions‚ allow for a growth in industry‚ and establish a new free market. The railroad companies‚ the Union
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Individual Notes week 2 Economic Opportunities Paper Refer to the Railroads Map under The Corporation in Ch. 17 of American History: a Survey under to study the progression of the nation’s railroad system during 1870. After studying this map‚ imagine yourself as a business promoter seeking new immigrant labor from either Europe or Asia. Write a 350- to 700-word paper in which you describe the economic opportunities beckoning newcomers in all regions of the country as a result of industrialization
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industry? -John D. Rockefeller The Credit Mobilier scandal involved what business? -Railroad Which author is credited with coining the term Gilded Age? -Mark Twain The Pendleton Act was in response to the -assassination of President Garfield In the last third of the nineteenth century‚ steel became a more widely used material after -the Bessemer process made it easier to convert iron to steel The first skyscraper was built in what United States city? -Chicago Who loaned the United States
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