Before the advent of the transcontinental railroad‚ a journey across the continent to the western states meant a dangerous six month trek over rivers‚ deserts‚ and mountains. Alternatively‚ a traveler could hazard a six week sea voyage around Cape Horn‚ or sail to Central America and cross the Isthmus of Panama by rail‚ risking exposure to any number of deadly diseases in the crossing. Interest in building a railroad uniting the continent began soon after the advent of the locomotive. The first
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Important People / Events 1815-1850:Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was started to being built in 1815 and it finished in 1850 allowing many Africans Americans over to Canada. It was a secret way of reaching freedom and the railroad was made out of safe houses‚ rivers‚ conductors‚ trails and secret routes which all led to freedom. Ten of thousands of african Americans got to Canada using the Underground railroad getting them to Upper and Lower Canada. 1850:The Fugitive Slave Act The
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successfully sued the Long Island Railroad Company for compensation for her injuries in the Kings County‚ New York State Circuit Court. The Long Island Railroad Company appealed this decision to the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court‚ Second Department‚ which upheld the lower court’s ruling. The company appealed once more to the New York Court of Appeals‚ which agreed to hear the case. FACTS OF THE CASE The Plaintiff was purchasing a ticket on the railroad platform. A train stopped on the
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Impact of Railroads on the United States During the mid 1800’s‚ several inventions and industrial improvements were made that would change life in the United States forever. One of the greatest improvements was that of the railroad. The first documented American railway‚ which was horse powered‚ began operating in the year 1810 (Wilson‚ Pg 20). However‚ with the invention of the steam engine applied to this concept‚ the railroad became the quickest and most efficient mode of transportation available
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United States railroad companies transport millions of freight cars a year over their network. Railroad companies rely on their network to move shipments from city to city and state to state. Each railroad company has a service-design department which coordinates the movement of railcars‚ crew‚ and locomotives over the railroad’s network. Creating an operating plan for the system is a challenging task because train scheduling consists of designing train routes‚ days of operation‚ timings‚ and
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Explain the impact and importance of the railroads in the unification of Germany Germany‚ during the two decades of the first major railroads being built‚ was separated into three-dozen individual states. The railroads provided an opportunity for those states to merge into a united country. This was accomplished through a unified trading system‚ linking the industrial cities‚ uniting Western and Eastern Prussia‚ delivering a more effective structure to law and order and competition between states
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was until railroads started getting built on both sides. Building railroads did have downfalls though‚ as the building process was very hard on their bodies. It was also very hard to get supplies to the building. Then people invented different types of track to help evolve the building of the railroad systems. Railroads helped evolve the United States into what it is today‚ despite all the rough patches the Americans faced to make it happen. Beginning in the nineteenth century‚ railroads were built
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The Big Four were the men known in building the Central Pacific Railroad‚ the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States. The four men were Leland Stanford who was the President‚ Collis P. Huntington who was the Vice President‚ Mark Hopkins who was the Treasurer‚ and Charles Crocker who was the Construction Supervisor. Leland Stanford was born in the year of 1824 in Watervliet‚ New York‚ and was raised on family farms. Stanford began law school around the year 1848
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Union Pacific Railroad was authorized to construct a transcontinental railroad with substantial financial support from the federal government‚ officers and directors of the company devised a plan to make an immediate profit from its construction by fraud. The vehicle for this fraud was a company called Credit Mobilier of America. The method was to have Credit Mobilier‚ which was entirely controlled by the same people‚ bill the Union Pacific for the costs of constructing the railroad. There was no
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construction of the transcontinental railroad? Chinese in the 1800’s faced many challenges in the process of building the transcontinental railroad. The Chinese faced discrimination‚ dangerous working areas‚ and long hours of work with little wage. The transcontinental railroad had a purpose for its construction. It served to transport goods and supplies to areas in which it was burdening to transport to using other kinds of transportation. Building the railroad served to also receive land‚ loans
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