and the Building of the Railroad Long ago‚ people needed to get across the country. They didn’t have cars and plains‚ so they used trains. Before the trains‚ they had wagon trails‚ which were slow to use. In the 1800’s‚ workers in the USA started building a train from Nebraska to the west while California built a railroad toward the east. The work building the railroad was hard. Since not enough men in the area wanted this hard construction work‚ the railroad companies hired Chinese Immigrants
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Implementing Social Media in the Workplace (Facing Obstacles and How to Overcome Them) Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines Bill Coffill Endicott College Social Media originally began‚ and has long been viewed as a solely a conduit for personal interactions‚ and a way for friends‚ family‚ and acquaintances to remain connected. As of 2009‚ Facebook alone hosted 200 million users‚ double from just one year earlier (Hempel‚ 2009). Due to social media’s
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“Washington crossing the Delaware‚” are lucid”. Washington crossing the Delaware where his crew and him surprised hessian force on Christmas day. Comparing and contrasting in the painting with a poem of the event where it took place‚ mostly everything that was in the picture was described in the poem. The first paragraph will state how the poem and picture are alike. The Second paragraph will describe how they are different. The poem and picture of Washington crossing the Delaware
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THE IRON ROAD Video Worksheet 10/24/2012 Ashley Audibert Prior to the transcontinental railroad‚ those who wanted to travel from the East to the West Coast traveled by wagon across the plains or by ship around South America. They endured the hardship of linking the East and West Coasts of the United States by rail because it was a vital link for trade‚ commerce and travel. Greenville Dodge was a military man in the Civil War. Greenville did western plains‚ surveying and was an
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in the month of July and started off in a town called Martinburg which was located in the state of West Virginia. What lead up The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was a depression that started in September of 1873. The depression had a hold on the country that included wage cuts‚ evictions‚ breadlines‚ and layoffs. Many Americans suffered for the rest of the year as well as throughout the year of 1874. Even though 1874 was a
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helped kids and adults with nowhere to go. Harriet Tubman was the conductor of the Underground Railroad. During a ten-year span she made 19 trips and freed over three hundred slaves. Also‚ in all of her trips she has never lost a single passenger. Everyone who attempted to escape through the Underground Railroad succeeded. Harriet Tubman was the most well known conductor of the Underground Railroad. By 1856‚ the reward for the capture of Harriet Tubman was up to $40‚000. Harriet Tubman was a very
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The B&O Railroad has an unwavering historic importance. It is the oldest common carrier railroad of America. The businessmen‚ surveyors and engineers from Baltimore and the state of Maryland took initiative for the building of the B&O Railroad. It was built to increase the state’s economic prosperity. The state had rich resources of coal deposits‚ natural gas and oil in the midst of heavily forested mountains. It linked the agricultural Midwest to the commerce offered by Ohio River. Chartered on
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was known as the first major walkout in U.S. History that started during the Panic of 1873. The railroad company in a move they thought would slow the bleeding decided that they would make up their lost profits by cutting the workers’ pay by 10% and make them work longer hours. As a result‚ the employees decided to avoid coming to work and eventually set up a blockade at the entrance to not allow any of the others to come through. In support of this act‚ several
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Washington Crossing the Delaware Both the poem by David Shulman and the painting by Emanuel Leutze cover the same topic of Washington crossing the Delaware River; they are both different works‚ yet they have more similarities. The poem and the painting both include the weather and the surrounding terrain such as the rough water from the painting and the “stinging cold” from the poem. However‚ the poem offers more background to the actual event than the painting. An example is the mention of Washington
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On this day ten years ago‚ our country completed the construction of the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. As a worker for the Central Pacific Company‚ I had faced more difficult conditions than the workers of the Union Pacific Company. The transcontinental railroad has greatly benefitted our country‚ which means all our hard work has payed off. I recall being a part of the crew that was chosen to lay the final ten miles of track. It was an amazing experience and memorable day for everyone
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