The Transcontinental Railroad: A Double Edged Sword David B Jayroe II Hist233 Professor Para November 15‚ 2014 The Transcontinental Railroad: A Double Edged Sword January 24‚ 1948 was the day that drastically changed the history of America. This day‚ James W. Marshal discovered gold in the south fork of the American River‚ while building a saw mill for Captain John Sutter. Despite his attempts to conceal his discovery‚ the news spread quickly across the country‚ setting the California
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Did you know that there was over 1‚700 miles of railroad track laid in the US from 1863-1869? This magnificent project was known as the Transcontinental Railroad‚ stretching all the way from California to Nebraska. The transcontinental railroad‚ took a long time to build‚ but connected the East and the West of the United States and had many impacts. Building the railroad was no easy task. The US government passed the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862‚ and this gave the private companies permission‚
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GOLD RUSH‚ THE IMPACT OF MINING ON POOR PEOPLE INTRODUCTION 1. Ghana has been blessed with a lot of minerals including gold‚ diamond and bauxite. These have been mined over the years in various ways for the development of the country. Ghana’s huge mineral wealth is well known as the country is ranked ninth in the world for recognised gold deposits. 2. We often hear on news the death of illegal miners caused by a collapse cave or them being buried alive in collapse pits. Lands of
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California Gold Rush 5/1/13 The California Gold Rush Before the Gold Rush of 1849‚ California was a sparsely populated‚ unimportant territory of the United States mostly inhabited by the people of Mexico. However‚ that all changed when on January 24‚ 1848; carpenter and small time sawmill operator James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River that would forever change the history of California and America1. Not only did the Gold Rush lead to California’s
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expansion. The teacher did a read aloud about the transcontinental railroad and had a discussion with students about why the transcontinental railroad played an important role in the westward expansion. One student believed that trains had always existed‚ but the teacher explained that trains were actually constructed in the 1800s. The teacher told the students to write down a few new facts they had just learned about the transcontinental railroad and asked for volunteers to share. As each student
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Gold Rush to Rail Road Invention The gold rush began at the beginning of the 1848 and continued till 1853. According to the author Orsi of the book The Elusive Eden‚ the Gold was first discovered by James Marshall at Sutter’s mill. This discovery of gold news started spreading all around the California and around the world. By the end of the 1848 news had reached Hawaii‚ Mexico‚ the Pacific Northwest‚ the Pacific Coast of South America‚ China‚ the East Coast of the United States‚ and Europe. The
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Social Issue: The Transcontinental Railroad- Before the Transcontinental Railroad‚ traveling West in the United States was a costly and difficult journey through deserts‚ and over mountains. After the invention of locomotives‚ railroads began to show up everywhere. Many saw an opportunity in railroads to expand settlement in the west and transform the United States into a more modern nation. The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies formed the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862‚ which
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The Gold Rush Of 1849 Would you travel‚ live‚ and work under harsh conditions for months to fulfill a dream? Thousands of gold hunters from all corners of the world did so in hopes of striking rich after a brief discovery of gold in the American territory of California. This huge worldwide flock of people became known as the California Gold Rush of 1849. The Gold Rush granted riches to and a handful of miners‚ but provided Americans as well as many foreigners a new homeland and life. At the start
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American Government: On behalf of the Native American tribes‚ this letter is being written to address the issue of the Transcontinental Railroad. I am Chief Red Horse of the Lakota tribe and I would like to bring up that the railroad will affect the way of life of all of the Natives. This is the reason why we will not be putting up with the railroads going through our land. It is completely unfair for you to take over our land and push us off of it. This land is ours. We settled on this land
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Estados Unidos Julia M. Essay: The California Gold Rush Until 1849‚ California always used to be a sleepy‚ little-known backwater. However‚ with the California Gold Rush suddenly everything changed. The city‚ people‚ culture‚ infrastructure as well as the economy. In no time the California Gold Rush transformed the isolated island of tranquility to an unruly emporium of business and bedlam. When we think about the California Gold Rush today‚ many of us only know about the good sides of
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