country was improved immensely. Railroads were built connecting the east and the west and provided a means of transporting goods and people across the country. John Stevens‚ the father of American railroads‚ charted the first railroad in 1815. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad was the first completed railroad in the country‚ 1830. Two other significant railroads included the Saratoga‚ which improved trade with the Native Americans‚ and the Transcontinental railroad‚ which was joined by the golden spike
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distance in miles that Lewis and Clark traveled from St. Louis to Ft. Clatsop near the Pacific Ocean. 1‚400.15 miles 3.Using the scale on the interactive map‚ give the approximate distance in miles that the transcontinental railroad covered from Omaha to San Francisco. 1‚429.875 miles First Paragraph I live in a well maintained place named Northville in the state of Michigan. The area is covered in neighborhoods and is a very nice small town‚ very much refined by humans. The region has a mild
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The Transcontinental Railroad and Westward Expansion Thesis: The transcontinental railroad greatly increased Westward expansion in the United States of America during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The history of the United States has been influenced by England in many ways. In the second half of the 1800 ’s‚ the railroad‚ which was invented in England‚ had a major effect on Western expansion in the United States. "Railroads were born in England‚ a country with dense populations
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Roles of Women on the Oregon Trail Part I: What I know Women didn’t have it very easy on the Oregon Trial. They had many chores/jobs they had to get done. And those jobs were no walk in the park. They were hard‚ laborious‚ and dirty jobs. They were also often “handed” these jobs. Women were often taken granted for. In the men’s minds‚ they were trivial‚ but that was far from true. If women hadn’t gone on the Oregon Trail‚ it probably wouldn’t have gotten that far. Women and girls play a big
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for the moral issue of slavery; urged Americans to forget the sectional quarrel and to build a prosperous and powerful nation. 1850s- Most distinguished and productive periods in the history of American lit- Before- literacy dependency on Europe First Writers w/ recognition: (spent a lot of time overseas in Europe observing the conventions of Europe’s writers Washington Irving- History of NY‚ The Sketchbook; Irving hoped to exchange the “commonplace realities of the present” for the “shadowy grandeur
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American economy. The Transcontinental railroads provided supplies to Union Soldiers as well as transportation for western settlers. During the Civil war‚ the transcontinental railroads provided the transportation of supplies to Union soldiers. In 1840 the U.S. government agreed a transcontinental Railroad would be a good idea(Ray‚ Kurt 24). The construction of the Railroads started in the 1850’s and once they were built trade rapidly began to improve. The new railroads helped the soldiers get
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and the economy. The transcontinental railroad is one factor that introduced the American indusrty. This immense industry turned into an even greater business and touched from coast to coast. Because of the railroads‚ urbanization and industrialization grew although the corruptions with scandals came as well. The nation was in a time of spurring even higher from starting in 1865. Before the railroads‚ the population was more scattered around farming areas. As the railroads grew‚ urbanization also
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expansion. The teacher did a read aloud about the transcontinental railroad and had a discussion with students about why the transcontinental railroad played an important role in the westward expansion. One student believed that trains had always existed‚ but the teacher explained that trains were actually constructed in the 1800s. The teacher told the students to write down a few new facts they had just learned about the transcontinental railroad and asked for volunteers to share. As each student
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live providing them with food and supplies until they could support themselves. Whites saw transportation as the key to economic growth; they knew people wanted to buy the goods‚ but inefficient transportation hindered sales. With the First Transcontinental Railroad businessmen could now reach previously remote areas of land‚ and this growth boosted opportunities for farmers in the region. People now viewed the west as a new beginning full of adventures and wealth. They climbed aboard the trains for
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Wells Fargo & Co. In 1852‚ Wells Fargo & Co was founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo with a purpose to serve the West. The new company started the banking (buying gold and selling paper bank drafts as good as gold) and expresses (rapid delivery of the gold and anything else valuable). After starting by Henry Wells and William Fargo‚ Wells Fargo opened for business in the San Francisco port. Soon Wells Fargo’s agents started to operate their offices in the other cities and camps of the West. During
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