It wasn’t until 1862‚ though‚ that the Pacific Railroad Act enacted the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. For seven years the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies built‚ one starting on the east coast and the other on the west‚ and finally met in Promontory‚ Utah‚ on May 10‚ 1869. There the historic golden spike was driven in‚ uniting the country from east to west. This railroad became a quick form of transportation across the country‚ allowing migration
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impacted‚ and most of all how it happened and why. In 1869‚ the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met in Promontory‚ Utah. This transcontinental railroad made traveling easier and more efficient. By having this railroad‚ western travelers now could take less dangerous routes and it wouldn’t take as long. After a year into the Civil War‚ congress finally passed the Pacific Railroad Act which grants
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of the purposeful‚ politicians destroy success in an attempt to gain it‚ and entitlement is an epidemic. Dagny Taggart is the Vice-President of Operations of Taggart Transcontinental‚ her family railroad empire. Her brother‚ Jim‚ fills the role of President. The country is slipping into economic turmoil‚ and the state of the railroad is following suit. Jim and his fellow business elite‚ known as the “looters”‚ do not wish to work hard for their success and instead create government regulations to
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“I declare this to be gold‚” announced John Augustus Sutter one random day in the early months of the year 1848. During the construction of a sawmill in 1848‚ James Marshall the carpenter in-charge of the construction made a major discovery of gold. While Sutter wanted to keep this discovery a secret‚ the news eventually got out‚ leading to what is now known as the California Gold Rush. Of course‚ once the news of gold spread‚ men swarmed to California to get a grab at the expensive metal. Soon western
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innovative new technologies and services most importantly the Transcontinental Railroad and the first electric power grids. These innovations gave way to other new inventions‚ business entrepreneurs‚ and business strategies. The Transcontinental Railroad was the missing piece to the puzzle that upon completion caused a chain reaction that led to the growth of the United States economy during that time. Prior to the Civil War the railroad system stretched between northeastern and southeastern United
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land grants- Recognizing that western railroads would lead the way to settlement‚ the federal government provided railroad companies with huge subsidies in the form of loans and land grants. The government expected that the railroad would make every effort to sell the land to new settlers to finance construction. 2. Transcontinental railroad-During the Civil War‚ Congress authorized land grants and loans for the building of the first transcontinental railroad totie California to the rest of the Union
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After the Transcontinental Railroad was constructed‚ the fate of the Chinese took a dive for the worse because in 1882‚ the United States of America created the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act was established to end Chinese immigration and shut the “golden
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"The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent " John L. O’ Sullivan At the time of the mid- 1800’s most Americans thought that it was destiny for the United States to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. There were many reasons why people wanted to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A few reasons were free farmland was offered to people out west. As well as the growing population along the Atlantic‚ gold‚ and other
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labor union movement successful in reading its goals during the late 1800s and WHY? 1. What kinds of benefits did railroad magnates receive for construction of transcontinental lines? In your opinion‚ should the U.S. have subsidized the railroads the way we did? 2. In what kinds of ways did owners of railroads cheat the public? 3. How did completion of the transcontinental railroad impact American growth? 4. How did Carnegie revolutionize the steel Industry? How was his consolidation different
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Juliann Gardiner Mrs. Buescher English‚ Period 5 15 January 2015 America’s transformation: The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution has brought many positive effects and attributes that has shaped America and even affected modern society today. Industrialization has altered how people live‚ especially how people work‚ the clothes people wear‚ the food people eat‚ how people are educated‚ and how long others can live. The Industrial Revolution also provided the countries that first adopted
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