First Transcontinental Railroad

Chinese tradesmen to a subordinate role. Opium trade, fueled by Britain, drained China of silver, and drove up the price of silver. Silver was the standard payment for taxes, but rising prices made tax payments an economic burden for peasants. The First Opium War, 1839 to 1842, resulted in the defeat of the Chinese and the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing. The treaty forced ceded Hong Kong to the British and open treaty ports to the British along the southern coast providing Britain with greater access

To our right is William Henry Fox Talbot‘s photograph and one the first famous calotypes, titled Talbot’s photographic printing establishment at Reading, shot ca. 1845/ 1846. The Calotype, or Talbotype process, was first invented by Talbot in September of 1840 and declared official five months later. Research explains that “the calotype’s flexibility allowed photographers to manipulate the image before a pint was produced and its visual softness neutralizes singular detail in favor of the universal

Photographers documented the building of the transcontinental railroad, scenic landscapes, and socio-geographic changes brought about from building railroads, mining stations, and other land developments of that time. William Henry Jackson photographed various portions of scenery along the Union Pacific railroad, the Yellowstone River and Yellowstone region in Wyoming and Montana, as well as portions of the Rocky Mountains (Bossen

Capitalism in American from 1860 into the Twenty-First Century; Recessions, Depressions, and Economic Booms Caren Chapman His 109 10/09/2015 The citizens of the United States of America experienced a plethora of economic rollercoasters throughout history. The minorities seemed to struggle the worst with racism and unemployment, but America was effected within every race, sex, and age group. Capitalism within our government has made several improvements throughout the years, but has also

left England for America to build the first factory that would produce spindles of yarn. It was a water-powered cotton mill, but it revolutionized the textile industry in the U.S. and paved the path for Industrial Revolution through the factory system. According to George (2012), the new manufacturing technologies introduced by Samuel Slater were critical to the process of American industrialization. More factories sprang up in the following decades after the first U.S. cotton mill was founded in Beverly

Barth, Gunter Paul in his book "Bitter Strength: A History of the Chinese in the United States, 1850-1870" depicts the life of Chinese immigrants during the periods of 1850-1870. Barth portrays the experience that the Chinese went through at the Pearl River delta in China to get to the United States and there arrival here in California. Beginning in the mid-19th century, Chinese immigration to America was influenced by both the "pull" of California's Gold Rush and the""push" created by China's

discouraged the Chinese immigration to come to California and established special taxes on employers who hire Chinese workers. In 1863, The Central Pacific hired Chinese laborers and the Union Pacific hired Irish laborers to construct the first transcontinental railroad that would link San Francisco to Omaha, permitting travel by train from coast to

American literature 1865-1914 is an American literary time period that began in 1865 and ended in 1914. This time period was flourished by three distinct features and the first of these features is: The Aftermath of the Civil War. It is estimated that a total of 620,000 Americans were killed in the Civil War, and for what? At the time, we were an America that was divided by one huge issue that ran supreme and it was slavery and the unequal treatment of African Americans. At this time the nation needed

government. At the end of the 19th century the country had a turning point with foreign relations, which had gradually gained strength on the international stage. Europe began to accept the “balance of power” politics, the United States spent their first century as a country they slowly began to develop themselves as a global strength. With not being sure how to

forced many to look to new opportunities in cities and elsewhere. This included the newly expanded west. In the 1880s Kansas had three dominating groups- railroad companies, farmers, and cowboys. All three dealt with individual triumphs and struggles when developing the West and specifically Kansas in the later part of the 19th century. Railroads spent most of the 1880s concerned with previous legislation, farmers worried about land allotment and surviving on the Plains. Cowboys also worried about