impacted‚ and most of all how it happened and why. In 1869‚ the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met in Promontory‚ Utah. This transcontinental railroad made traveling easier and more efficient. By having this railroad‚ western travelers now could take less dangerous routes and it wouldn’t take as long. After a year into the Civil War‚ congress finally passed the Pacific Railroad Act which grants
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of the purposeful‚ politicians destroy success in an attempt to gain it‚ and entitlement is an epidemic. Dagny Taggart is the Vice-President of Operations of Taggart Transcontinental‚ her family railroad empire. Her brother‚ Jim‚ fills the role of President. The country is slipping into economic turmoil‚ and the state of the railroad is following suit. Jim and his fellow business elite‚ known as the “looters”‚ do not wish to work hard for their success and instead create government regulations to
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Factors that Contributed to expansion? There were reasons for our westward expansion in the 19th century. One reason was our belief in Manifest Destin. Manifest Destiny: Definition The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents Identify the territory of US expansion? ? Gold Rush 1848-49 Facts 1.The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush 2.A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted
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The Homestead Act (1862): On May 20‚ 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act to provide travelers with 160 acres of public land. In return‚ the settlers would have to live there and improve the land for at least five years. This Act caused distribution of about eighty million acres of land to the public. With this great offer hundreds of people decided to pack their bags and move to the west. Sand Creek Massacre(1864): The Homestead Act persuaded many settlers to move West in hopes
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innovative new technologies and services most importantly the Transcontinental Railroad and the first electric power grids. These innovations gave way to other new inventions‚ business entrepreneurs‚ and business strategies. The Transcontinental Railroad was the missing piece to the puzzle that upon completion caused a chain reaction that led to the growth of the United States economy during that time. Prior to the Civil War the railroad system stretched between northeastern and southeastern United
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After the Transcontinental Railroad was constructed‚ the fate of the Chinese took a dive for the worse because in 1882‚ the United States of America created the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act was established to end Chinese immigration and shut the “golden
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land grants- Recognizing that western railroads would lead the way to settlement‚ the federal government provided railroad companies with huge subsidies in the form of loans and land grants. The government expected that the railroad would make every effort to sell the land to new settlers to finance construction. 2. Transcontinental railroad-During the Civil War‚ Congress authorized land grants and loans for the building of the first transcontinental railroad totie California to the rest of the Union
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"The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent " John L. O’ Sullivan At the time of the mid- 1800’s most Americans thought that it was destiny for the United States to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. There were many reasons why people wanted to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A few reasons were free farmland was offered to people out west. As well as the growing population along the Atlantic‚ gold‚ and other
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the many demands made by Southern senators was the issuing of a reinforced version of the 1793 Fugitive-Slave Law. Southern slave owners’ growing frustration with the increasing number of slave escapees and runaways on account of the Underground Railroad and other escape routes gave the ordeal of creating a stricter Fugitive-Slave Law great weight in what became the Compromise of 1850. Compromise was indeed struck
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Government support of railroad companies and rail development brought about immense changes and contributed greatly to the growing U.S. economy‚ industrial‚ and agricultural development. The government passed the Pacific Railroad Acts which commissioned the completion of transcontinental railroads. These transcontinental railroads created a national economic marketplace and connected the industrial factories of the East with the rich resources of the West. The government also provided railroad companies huge
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