industrial era rail roads
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Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Began to build from:
Description of
workers:
Hardships Encounter
ed:
Omaha,Nebraska
Irish men
Nat. Am attacksDisease
Sacramento,California
Chinese men
Tunnel thru mtns
WeatherLess moneyWork longer
hoursHad to pay for
foodPoint where companies met: Promontory Point, Utah (with golden spike)
Accidents, materials shipped from far
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Zulu Car - $40: backless bench: sleep underDay Coach - $75: seat lowered night w/ footrestPullman - $100: sofa bed; folded down; blanket
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Company 1:$50 million
Company 2:$100 million
Company 3:$150 million
(Situation: UP - wants to hire construction
company for railroads) Federal $
Taxpayers
All parts equal, who would YOU hire?Who did the Union Pacific hire?Why did they hire this company?
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•Congressmen were given stock in the Credit Mobilier company
•Lower level officials were given free passes on the
railroads anywhere
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o Who?
o Why meet?
o What did they
do?
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Owners of private property in which public has interest must be controlled by gov’t
Impact: railroads privately owned, but regulated by public
The PEOPLE
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State can’t set rates on railroads coming into their state or leaving their state
Impact: charged one fee for each ride
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Railroad rates must be reasonable and just
Impact: can’t charge more for short haul than long
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• Improved Transportation• Destruction of buffalo herds (impact on Nat. Am.)
• Deaths of Immigrant Workers• Boom Towns• Big Business• Increase in graft• Government regulation to protect citizens
• Time Zones (1883)
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triumph of 'American' labor and technology over the vast, inhospitable stretches of the
western landscape
OR
a huge movement westward which for the ones brought
prosperity and wealth, for others destruction and death.
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/building.htm
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EXIT SLIP: ANALOGYAn analogy is a comparison of certain similarities between things which are otherwise unlike.
Ex: A street light is like a star. Both provide light at night, both are in predictable locations, both are overhead, and both serve no function in the daytime.**************************************************
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD:
An analogy for the positive impacts of the railroad –
and WHY you made that connection.
An analogy for the negative impacts of the railroad – and WHY you made that
connection.