Railroads fueled industrial growth as it transported people‚ agricultural products‚ and raw materials products in an inexpensive and swifter approach. Railroads such as the Pennsylvania Railroad used a technique to limit its competition and kept their prices high as they bought seventy-three smaller lines and forced them out of business. They became so important to industrialization that document 2 proved to state that railroad mileage expanded from approximately
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1862 gave builders of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads five square miles of public land on each side of their right-of-way for each mile of track laid. The Pacific Railways would also help us with trading and expand the western United States economically. In the image by W.G.M. Samuel in 1849 in the West Side Main Plaza‚ in San Antonio Texas (document D)‚ showed a fairly large cow town. Cow towns were located along the railroad lines as the finishing point of the long drive. Cattle towns
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economic stability and expansion that brought the country a surplus of wealth. What made this happen was the Second Industrial Revolution that came about post-civil war time‚ with the building of railroads and being able to transport raw materials from east to west and visa versa. Although the times from 1870-1890 were fiscally dominant the politics in which business was executed was not for the faint of heart. The term “Gilded” is expressed by Mark Twain means “covered with a layer of gold‚
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population tripled between 1840 and 1870‚ and property values soared‚ increasing by more than 90 percent between 1860 and 1875. Further west‚ the city of Chicago became the other major site in the development of early skyscrapers. In contrast to New York‚ Chicago emerged as a major metropolis only in the mid-19th century‚ growing from a village of around fifty inhabitants in 1830‚ to a city of 30‚000 in 1850 and nearly 300‚000 by 1870. Chicago became the railroad hub for the American West and the
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establish a railroad police agency whose primary duty was to look into the protection of the railroad‚ which the public police did not do. On top of this Alan Pinkerton was well known as the federal government at that time enlisted him to investigate counterfeiting and protect the Post Officer from robbery. His covert abilities made him a valuable detective‚ being called on countless tasks that involved the Post Officer and railway employees. During the mid 1800’s‚ a few years after the railroad company’s
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Category North South West Midwest Political Industry growth distinguished the disparity between rich and poor. Political views clashed the majority of the time. African Americans left the South to work in the North and Midwest because there they would have a better chance of earning decent wages and improving their economic and social standings. The West faces problems‚ due to the friction between the Chinese and the white immigrants‚ the included riots and discriminatory laws. Political
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1.|What happened to the Plains Indian population between 1780 and 1870?Ø The population declined by half because of disease and as the Sioux pushed west‚ they defeated weaker opposition. Cheyenne warrior anguished‚ disease shifted balance of power | 2.|Explain the Indian wars on the Great Plains:Ø It marked its last resistance of its population devastated by disease and demoralized by the removal policy pursued by the government. Some tribes including the crow‚ Arikara‚ Pawnee and Shoshoni fought
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20th century would be characterized as captains of industry. Amongst them was Andrew Carnegie the owner of steel works company and J. Pierpont Morgan a seminal financiers. Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25‚ 1835. He began his career around 1870. During 1872 Carnegie traveled to London and was introduced to the new Bessemer methods of producing steel. he soon returned to the United States to create a million dollar steel plant. by 1800 Carnegie started to produce 10‚000 tons of steel a month
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of the railroad was a big hit for the United States. There was a large railroad expansion (Doc B) between the years of 1870 and 1890. The expansion of the railroad allowed transporting agricultural product to the Eastern states much easier. Not only made transporting products easier but it also encouraged westward expansion which then developed emerging national markets linking regions which was connected by the railroad. Congress even supported the fact of the expansion of railroads by passing
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economy were the railroads‚ factories and immigration. Railroads during the period of the industrial revolution were good throughout the north and were supported by the federal government to help build the north into achieving a prosperous economy. The railroads made transportation of goods and products easy‚ cheap and reliable. The steel industry made the expansion of the railroads possible and by the 1900’s‚ Carnegie made great contributions to the business world‚ enabling railroads to connect to
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