Rail transport

The needs of the railroad generated hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Rails had to be manufactured out of steel, which enriched the steel industry. Railroad companies not only employed workmen to build the rails, but they also had to hire employees to maintain the rails. Engines and train cars were constructed out of steel in factories. Engine boilers burned coat, thus lead to an increase the quantity of coal that was…

it did for anyone to get around to building the transcontinental railroad was that, for the longest time, no one was sure how to pay for it. The railroad system as it was in 1859 had been built for about $1 billion already. Completing the national rail network would run up another $10 billion which was money no one had or willing to give up. Many Americans in the mid-nineteenth century seemed to believe that a transcontinental railroad was a necessity in order for the United States to prosper.…

Sonora Gillespie Dr. Michael Perri History 1302 6 May 2015 Transformation of the Nation The transcontinental railroad network transformed post-Civil War America into a booming industry. The nation was finally physically bound from coast to coast. The railroad touched numerous phases of American life. It became America’s largest business. It employed thousands of people and made many things possible that could not be done before and of course it made things that could be done before a lot faster…

CHC 2D The Growth of a Nation: One Track at a Time What would Canada be like if we didn’t have railways? Railways have had and continue to have a great impact on our daily lives and we as Canadians may not always realize it. Canadian railways transport 75 million people, and more than 70 per cent of goods in Canada each year (Unknown, 2011). The first railway to be constructed which affected Canadians was in the 17th century. A mining railway was built and it was used to haul quarried…

The transcontinental railroad was a massive achievement for our country; its many accomplishments included expanding settlement, providing valuable jobs, and spurring immigration. Before the railroad was constructed, settlements were mostly established on the east coast. There were, however, a few settlements out west as a result of the California Gold Rush, but there was nothing in between. Traveling the 2,000 miles to California from the eastern region of the United States took five hard and…

safeguarded with the efforts of the Canadian governments. In addition, the public interests could be protected since the consistent perfecting railways system and facilities due to enough finance support. The Canadian officials play an essential role in protecting the national fundamental interests as well as adjusting different parties’ interests. With the mature of the Canadian railway system, the officials began to loosen the control to the railway companies and reduced the policies…

The years after the Civil War, proved to be crucial to our history. The Westward Expansion was a major and historical change. There were four keys contributions that lead to the movement of the westward expansion. Those four are: population growth, transportation improvements, money and the slave state/free state. This was the time frame that railroads took boom. The Transcontinental Railway was the biggest railway project. The congress authorized the Pacific Railway Act which funded a railroad…

following them was many radical changes. One of the first evident changes was one of independence; train lines diverted traffic from water ways, this in turn made the West in addition to the South more independent from their Northeastern counterparts. Rail lines were important for expansion across the nation, thousands of people used them to move Westward. People in the Western part of the nation were now able to trade more efficiently; their goods could be transported for export quickly.…

In the first section of this paper I will briefly examine some of the characteristics of what is described as the Gilded Age in America, the period immediately following the Civil War, the phrase being derived from Twain and Dudley’s novel The Gilded Age. One of the landmark achievements of this period, around which much of the novel also revolves, is the completion of the first transcontinental railway network in the year 1869. Predicated upon this, to a large extent, is the process of…

workers and hours drastically increased. The amount of people entering the workforce actually caused a nationwide shift in population from rural to urban areas. The expansion of business and factories lead to the innovation of buses in order to transport the large sums of people to get to work. With the elongated tiring hours and horrible working conditions lead to more people getting injured, that lead to hospitals to take care of the sick and hurt people. When the working class increased,…