“How dare you try to hog all the continent!” by Rocky Mountain News, 1866. The transcontinental railroad ran through the continent like a steel horse. The railroad was a massive event that happened in American history, and encounter and exchange occurred in this situation. For Chinese immigrants and Native Americans the transcontinental railroad was a series of tragic encounters. However, the transcontinental railroad allowed goods and services to be exchanged across the United States allowing great expansion.
U.S. commitment to Manifest Destiny led to construction of the transcontinental railroad. Contact between eastern and western commercial centers was hard because of long distances and slow transportation. The transcontinental railroad …show more content…
Also “Iron Horse” supplanted tribes of Native American people (Newman). Native Americans depended on wild animals, but construction of railroad led to extermination of animals. All disagreements between Native Americans and U.S. troops led to warfare in the 1870s. After the Civil War construction of railroad sped up and rushed with time passing by really fast. Irish and Chinese immigrants, former soldiers all worked on construction of the first main railroad. Men worked through cold and heat, through antagonistic Native Americans and diseases which they brought with them. Fast teamwork of Irish and Chinese immigrants and mutual understanding of two big railroad companies, led to complition of the transcontinental …show more content…
After long and hard work two ends of the railroad were next to each other. "The two railroads reached northern Utah at about the same time" (Jones). Workers didn't know what to do, which way to build, where to end the railroad, so they went past each other. The built lines parallel of each other, which was a really big problem to solve. Only later government decided that Promontory Point will be Utah. Ceremony was on May 10, 1869 where grand ceremony of golden railroad spike occurred. Railroad was done seven years before it was originally planned. The railroad had huge impact on U.S. transportation. Not only people could go from one side of the country to another, but also farm products. Goods were transported from farms to markets which were spread around the country. Transportation was not a problem any more. Railroad construction was a nation priority and it exceeded
U.S. commitment to Manifest Destiny led to construction of the transcontinental railroad. Contact between eastern and western commercial centers was hard because of long distances and slow transportation. The transcontinental railroad …show more content…
Also “Iron Horse” supplanted tribes of Native American people (Newman). Native Americans depended on wild animals, but construction of railroad led to extermination of animals. All disagreements between Native Americans and U.S. troops led to warfare in the 1870s. After the Civil War construction of railroad sped up and rushed with time passing by really fast. Irish and Chinese immigrants, former soldiers all worked on construction of the first main railroad. Men worked through cold and heat, through antagonistic Native Americans and diseases which they brought with them. Fast teamwork of Irish and Chinese immigrants and mutual understanding of two big railroad companies, led to complition of the transcontinental …show more content…
After long and hard work two ends of the railroad were next to each other. "The two railroads reached northern Utah at about the same time" (Jones). Workers didn't know what to do, which way to build, where to end the railroad, so they went past each other. The built lines parallel of each other, which was a really big problem to solve. Only later government decided that Promontory Point will be Utah. Ceremony was on May 10, 1869 where grand ceremony of golden railroad spike occurred. Railroad was done seven years before it was originally planned. The railroad had huge impact on U.S. transportation. Not only people could go from one side of the country to another, but also farm products. Goods were transported from farms to markets which were spread around the country. Transportation was not a problem any more. Railroad construction was a nation priority and it exceeded