First Transcontinental Railroad

As people were having their own private properties, and have more money to trade products in big scale and were able to produce products in mass scale, industrial capitalism has been created that continues to this day. The panic of 1873 is the first global depression that was occurred by new idea of industrial capitalism. The key to industrial capitalism is a boom and bust cycle. Boom and bust cycle is occurred by the process of economic expansion and contraction that occurs repeatedly. During

“The Transcontinental Train” Word Count: 603 Today I look back at my home. Or to put it correctly, what used to be my home. The Americans and their hired Chinese and Irish men are, as we speak, running the tracks down that divide our land. Not theirs, but our land. These people are laying down tracks separating our lives as we speak. Our entire way of operating will be destroyed. And it doesn’t seem like it only affected their side, but our American side as well. They can

trails. There is also a lot of reasons why people would use the trails, for example to have safer and easier travel. Why would people leave their homes to go to a different state? There are many people that left their home for various reasons. First, the west had very rich farm land. Lots of people would travel to the west because the soil was so rich, and they didn’t have winter so farmers would be able to grow crops all year

By the year 1869 when the first transcontinental railroad was done, 350,000+ pioneers had taken the trip on the Oregon Trail. Several of these people were women and most of the women were accompanied with children (Pioneers West Women). Many men just told their wives that they were going to go

The Influence of Chinese and Irish Laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad      The Chinese and Irish laborers answered strongly when asked to help build the Transcontinental Railroad that connected the Pacific and the Atlantic Coasts. During the long process the immigrant workers encountered harsh weather and living and working conditions. Their work produced the Great Iron Trail in an incredibly short time with minimal resources and equipment. Their struggles are often

the social benefits of city life is often seen as the main cause of urbanization in the U.S, the most crucial causes of urbanization between 1875 and 1925 include the influx of free unskilled workers, new technology and ideas, and the expansion of railroads. New populations, and communities of different cultures found that cities offered a variety of jobs and most settled in urban areas. After the Emancipation Proclamation and Reconstruction Amendments ,there were hundreds of thousands of African

In the 1800s expanding westward was the United States’ main priority. One of the first roads west was the Oregon Trail, also known as the “Oregon-California Trail”. This laborious path was crucial to the United States’ evolution and expansion; it led people to the other side of the newly added land of the United States, was one of the most efficient ways of travel and communication across the country at the time, led to new ways to traveling, and it opened up a new world for those who dared to

Railroads were a huge step in innovations for the United States. The transcontinental Railroad was Built from 1863 to 1869. Taking over six years, the railroad stretched almost 2,000 miles, connecting the Mississippi rivers to the Pacific Coast in San Francisco. Although the transcontinental railroad was one of the biggest things to happen in the railroad industry, there was many other railroads that caused significance. Through the 1850’s and 1860’s alone over 50,000 miles of railroad were built

Engine Topic Sentence- The Influence of the Steam Engine started with many things, such as the struggle with trade and the limited amounts of transportation. 1.One influence of the Steam Engine  was better transportation and trading. With the Railroad and Train, trade was evolved and goods could be transported fresher and faster.(Savery,Thomas 47,48) 2. Another Influence of the Steam Engine was the lack of transportation. Before the Steam Engine transportation was limited to only a horse and

stretched over 2,100 miles from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon. The Oregon trail had served as the only practical land route for settlers to reach the west coast until the second-half of the nineteenth century when the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, which offered a faster and safer route for people and cargo between the western United States and eastern United States. Yet, people had still flocked in the thousands across the Oregon Trail in search of