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Transcontinental Railroad Industrial Growth
537 wordsQuestion: What factors helped to promote Americas huge industrial growth during the period from 1860 to 1900? Industrialization in America did not begin until about a hundred years after it began in England and other European countries. Although once it began, it kept on going. Within forty years America was producing anywhere between double to five times the amount of steel that Germany or England was producing. This was called The Industrial Boom. During The Industrial Boom many of the things ...
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Dollars A Month Transcontinental Railroad
1,215 wordsVail Mountain School Grade 8 The Transcontinental Railroad Although many changes occurred in the mid 1800 's in America, such as the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War, the Transcontinental Railroad profoundly changed the U. S. This tremendous project, partly funded by Congress, was one of the key factors that encouraged foreign immigration to America. The Transcontinental Railroad certainly instilled a sense of overwhelming pride in this nation, and it paved the way for the development of ...
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Time Life Books Transcontinental Railroad
1,244 words... e the charge ignited. In order to speed up the process of blasting through the mountains, a new type of explosive was adopted. It was called nitro-glycerin; this compound was extremely explosive and unstable to transport. A Scottish chemist was hired to mix the formula near the workers. Although this would speed up the construction, it came at a heavy price. Workers were often killed by debris that would fly into the air when the explosives went off. The debris included trees, rocks, and dir...
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Part Of The Country Transcontinental Railroad
2,694 wordsDuring the period between 1820 - 1860 a wave of immigrants from different countries captured America. For many of them emigrating to the U. S. was the bets solution to escape, as they thought, from poverty. And immigrants arrived as usual without resources, or capital to start their own business. Fortunately, America after the Civil war demands for muscle grunt; so, there was a work for them. Due to immigrants, and first of all to Irish and Chinese, a lot of great canals and thousands of miles o...
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Millions Of Dollars Transcontinental Railroad
2,899 wordsBUILDING THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD From the time when locomotives first set their immense wheels onto the frigid iron of parallel rails, Americans longed for a means of transportation which would connect the separate regions of California and the Eastern states. This need for connection, fueled by manifest destiny led to the building of the first transcontinental railroad. Expansion of the railroads would have been postponed indefinitely without the unfair support the government provid...
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Transcontinental Railroad Native Americans
1,206 wordsDouble Edge Sword After the civil war, we had thousands upon thousands of people looking for the American Dream, and Horace Greeley, who stated the famous words Go west young man, helped to start the great migration westward. There was plenty of cheap land west of the Mississippi, and gold was for in the West, just waiting for those who could get there. The migration ultimately interfered with the Native Americans, which changed their way of life forever. Many poor souls tried to make it in the ...
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Transcontinental Railroad Railroad Lines West
274 wordsImpact of the Railroad Ever since the 1830 s when Horatio Allen imported the first steam locomotive from Britain, railroads have captured the imagination of Americans. This new machine with the luxury of riverboats, could cross immense distances and terrains that would exhaust horses. Railroads made local travel possible and reliable enough for business as well as for people and families moving west. After realizing how the railroad greatly impacted the settlement of the west and the development...
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