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21 Cards in this Set
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Union Pacific Railroad
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Westward from Omaha, Nebraska
For each mile built, builders received 20 square miles and generous federal loan Irish "Paddies" |
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Credit Mobilier
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pocketed $73 million for some $50 million worth of construction
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Central Pacific Railroad
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eastward from Sacramento through Sierra Nevada
employed Chinese |
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Big Four
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Leland Stanford
Collis P. Huntington Clean, financial backers of Central Pacific Railroad |
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Ogden, Utah; 1869
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merging of Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad
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Northern Pacific Railroad
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Lake Superior to Puget Sound
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Southern Pacific railroad
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New Orleans to S.F.
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Great Northern
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Duluth to Seattle
James J. Hill: prosperity of railroad depended on prosperity of area that it served |
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James J. Hill
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Great Northern
prosperity of railroad depended on prosperity of area that it served agricultural demonstration |
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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expanded older eastern networks (N.Y. Central)
Vanderbilt University steel rail |
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Refinements
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Westinghouse air brake
Pullman Palace Cars standard gauge |
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Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
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prohibited rebates and pools and required railroads to publish rates openly
forbade unfair discrimination against shippers and outlawed charging more for a short haul than a long one over same line ICC to administer and enforce legislation |
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Telephone
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Thomas A. Edison
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electric light, phonograph, mimeograph, dictaphone, moving picture
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vertical integration v. horizontal integration v. interlocking directorates
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Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan
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Bessemer process
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making cheep steel
"air boiling" William Kelly America had lots of resources & abundant labor supply for success of making steel |
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JP Morgan
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financed reorganization of railroads, insurance companies, and banks
United States Steel Corporation |
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James Buchanan Duke
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American Tobacco Company
Duke Univeristy |
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Why South couldn't rise
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Regional rate-setting systems (gave preferential rates to manufactured goods moving southward; "third world" servitude)
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"Pittsburgh plus"
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Rich deposits of coal and iron ore near Birmingham, Alabama
Could never match up with Pittsburgh steel; charged fictional fee wherever it went |
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Samuel Gompers
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AFL
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