Class I railroad

Harriet Tubman was a slave. She was against slavery and wanted every African American free. She decided that one day she would become free. Since she worked closely by the Underground Railroad, she led the slaves to the Underground Railroad and freed them. Today she is known for her bravery and saving over 300 slaves in the late 1800’s. Harriet Tubman was born in 1820. She had 7 siblings and her parents, and they were also slaves. She started doing housework and caring for white children on…

What is Underground Railroad? Where it runs through? It is a secret system that aids runaway slaves to escape to North and Canada. First, the “conductor”, who is the guide acts like a worker of the plantation and then the guide, helps the slave to escape from the slaveholder. Later, the “conductor” guides the fugitive to move from one station to another. The “stations” are secure places where fugitives can rest and eat, an alert is sent to the stationmaster to make the next movement. Also,…

listen up. Everyday I woke up, and I hoped that life would go back to the way it used to be. However, I was disappointed every time. All the other slaves and I would sing songs to help get through the long, painful days. Most of them were songs about trying to escape and when it is time to leave” I explained to them. “Oh yeah! I remember you telling us about that!” Kelly yelled. “Sweet Chariot was a popular song about how the angels would carry us to freedom when the time was right. I always…

so I don’t know how long it’s actually been. All I know is that we have been here since last night and that it’s cold. When they marched into the ghetto last night, we had been asleep and as comfortable as anyone could get here. My family shared an apartment with a young couple and their newborn baby, so my father had told them to take the bed. As we were getting ready to leave, my mother gave my sister, Adelaide, and I a small piece of bread and instructed us to put it in our pockets; I…

change her slave status, she changed her name to Harriet Tubman(Background Essay). Throughout the years Harriet Tubman accomplished many things, but the thing that she is known for is working on the Underground Railroad(Document B). Harriet also took a total of 38 slaves…

The Underground Railroad The “underground railroad” was an arrangement of houses and abolitionists who hid runaway slaves on their quest for freedom to Canada, before the civil war. Harriet Tubman, William Still, and Thomas Garrett played major roles in the railroad, from the formation to the operation of the railroad. Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the railroad, who would personally take trips south, and escort them the entire way to freedom. William Still was a conductor at the grand…

were aware that the railroad was the biggest deal of all time. The possibility of transporting goods over long distances, being able to establish business relationships throughout the American territory meant not only the development economic of the nation, if not the pocket thickening of many. In late 1869, exactly on May 6, with the completion of construction of the first transcontinental railroad, its expansion was a priority. For that reason, a the beginning of 1870s the railroad…

were primarily working in the factories located in the cities, which made up the industries that ran the country. The robber barons running these industries would pay the people low wages to work in the factories. Their low income forced the working class to live in terrible living conditions called the slums. The slums were heavily populated urban areas where people who were faced with poverty lived. Not only did they have to live in oppressed conditions, but the factories work conditions were…

for agriculture. Mining, a new money maker, first started there. The two industries drew people to work either in them, or in the towns where these workers resided. However, all this wouldn’t have been possible without the recently developed railroads. Railroads could transport product and people in a fraction of the time old wagon trains could. This new technology was what really made western expansion possible. It wasn’t all flawless though. Indians were forced to move and assimilate as the…

Huntington, Huntington, Collis P. Huntington is who many consider to be the head of the Central Pacific railroad. The reason why it all came together, so to speak. Huntington was always a brash businessman. He even had the audacity to claim the Eiffel tower wasn’t profitable. Huntington was a man who was in it all for profit. I understand that the big four, the men responsible for the Central Pacific Railroad: IE Huntington, Leland Stanford, Crocker and Hopkins may have worked together, but it…