First Transcontinental Railroad

Industrialization had a huge impact in the development of the nineteenth century. Industrialization was important because it led to new technologies and inventions that tremendously improved every day life. The technical innovations and the inventions of railroads brought people into the cities. Due to this, industries grew and more jobs were available. The need for workers put women and children into the workforce, providing cheap labor, and resulting in poor working conditions. The texts “Modern America

those large numbers of Chinese laborers remained to work in menial jobs, they were not seen as a threatened competitor with them to the job market. The Chinese had been popular once. They were brought over from California in large numbers by the railroad builders when cheap labor was needed. The stories of Chinese workers’ prowess as construction workers almost reached the status of folk legend. Chinese labors could work twelve hours on a handful of rice; They could calmly handle blasting jobs that

B. Inventions like the Bessemer process, railroads, and the production plant all affected jobs and the economy. C. The Bessemer process allowed steel to be created at a much faster rate. 1. This called for more workers in order to maximize production (a) Most workers were immigrants that worked

the US began to change. A major advancement in human technology was the transcontinental railroads. The transcontinental railroad extended across the continent. Railroads had the power of speeding up transportation for business and for one's own pleasure to travel. It was now easier for farmers who sold cattle to make business. Travel from the west would take 6 months, and it now took about a week. As good as railroads were, there were downsides as well, for the Native Americans at least. They

trade and travel across suddenly became more important. With more traveling westward with high hopes, it became ever apparent the need of a railroad system. The Transcontinental railroad plan was now becoming important now more than ever. The completion of the Transcontinental railroad marks a major milestone of the history of the United States. The railroad beginnings lead back to congress approving multiple survey parties to investigate routes eventually leading to no avail as no one could decide

Pacific and the Union Pacific--to construct a railroad that would connect Omaha, Nebraska to the west coast. With this type of expansion the railroad became the easiest way of moving westward. Since this was the easiest form of transportation of goods the Western settlement increased and more railroads were built. It was also the easiest way to get goods to the market. This meant that the settlement revolved around where the different locations of the railroad depots would be built. Which in turn made

The building of the Transcontinental Railroad changed everything. It was started in 1860 and finished on May 10, 1869. The Transcontinental Railroad was a railroad that linked the eastern and western United States. There were many benefits that came with the Transcontinental Railroad, but where there are pros, there are also cons. The Transcontinental Railroad affected everyone from the Indians, to the Chinese, to the environment. The Transcontinental Railroad affected the Indians mostly, in

I. Two transcontinental railways A. Donald Man and William Mackenzie bought up land in the West, and by 1901, they had enough land to qualify for federal assistance in building a railway. The Canadian Northern Railway was born as a rival to the Canadian Pacific Railway. B. The Grand Trunk Railway, an eastern-based company, also emerged at this time to take a share in the prairie grain traffic. C. These two railways (Canadian Northern and Canadian Pacific) ran in competition to each other sometimes

To Intertwine The distinction between a utopian world and the tribal world that brings one another to existents within their similarities that binds them as a whole, which people are impelled to move forward and not look back. David Berreby is a self-driven scientific researcher who received his bachelors in Arts in English from Yale University in 1981. David published an article, “It Takes A Tribe,” that pertains to social interactions with one another and defines an individual with specific traits

Bill Mullet Mrs. Schrembeck English 11 5/5/15 Norfolk and Southern Railway Norfolk and Southern Railway has had a very colorful heritage. This railway is one of the world’s largest railways. It is a very well-known railway. The Norfolk and Sothern railway has been honored as the safest railway in the world. This railway has held the safety honor bell longer than any railway company. It has as many as twenty thousand route miles in twenty two states across the United States. Since the early 1800s