Transcontinental railroad

Willa Cather moved to Nebraska in 1883, when she was only 9 years old. A year and a half later she moved to the small prairie city of Red Cloud. While there she had an attic room that she loved to read in. At sixteen she went to college. After attending the University of Nebraska she moved to Pittsburg. She became a big woman in American journalism, but quit when she started writing her American masterpieces. She wrote three masterpieces in five years, one being My Antonia. She was received the…

Among the unfair treatment of the Plains Indians when white settlers expanded westward, the U.S. federal government massacred Native American tribes who thought they were at peace with the government and as a result many innocent people died. These incidents of discriminative killings made the distrust from the Plains Indians grow and later this distrust led to major conflicts. The U.S. killed people from the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes even though they were friendly. The governor of the…

immigration. Being swarmed by incoming immigrants from Asia, expansion was necessary, and it was about time they explored uncharted territories. The federal government’s contribution to the development of the American West included the expanding the railroad system, also the federal government played a substantial role in the degeneracy of Native American life and the land and wildlife they impacted through their journey to the west. The federal government took the leading role in westward…

immigration of the Chinese to find employment with building the railroads. In addition, some groups came to escape religious persecution, like the Jews. Analyze the part played by immigration in transforming the urban social fabric of the United States between 1870 and 1900. Immigration transformed the…

now one of the most ethnically diverse states in the US. Also because of the Gold Rush California was able to become a state because of all the people that migrated there during the rush. Because of all the people moving to California it created railroads that we have everywhere today. The Gold Rush overall had an incredibly big impact then and affected even…

Exploring Transportation in America How people move from one place to another has changed juristically since the beginning of Unites Stated history and still continues to change today in America. From land travel to travel by water, the method used by the American people seems to be ever changing. With the limited variety of ways to commute, people haven’t always had many options to choose from with how they got from place to place. Transportation has helped to shape America into the great…

Barbed Wire greatly affected the cowboys because they could not roam freely and it ended the Open Range. Cow towns were towns built specifically for receiving cattle. Joseph G. McCoy started cattle driving in 1867. Texas longhorns driven to railroad heads in Kansas. This towns often had very little crime, with only about five to six murders a year. Cowboys often only got about six hours of rest after having eighteen hours of sitting on a saddle. A journey on the Chisholm Trail often took…

Pioneer Living Conditions in Nineteenth Century Nebraska As depicted in “My Antonia,” many people of the Nebraskan frontier lived in sod houses. Most sod houses had dirt floors while others had wooden planks or carpet. Temperatures in these houses were comfortable year-round because the thick, soil and grass walls kept heat in during the winter and out during the summer. There were persistent issues that came with living in sod houses, such as perpetual dirtiness and roof leaks, but for most,…

One thing that I learned from Lee’s “The Making of Asian America” was the feelings of the Asian immigrants. Previously, I had not known that many of the Asian immigrants has actually considered themselves “American” and were willing to denounce their home country. Lee explained this well in her section about Japanese immigrants. In this section, she discusses how far the Japanese Americans were willing to go to prove that they were, in fact, American. This includes being obedient to the…

the money was in the railroad industry. Jay Gould for example “was perhaps the first prominent railroad magnate to be tarred with the ‘robber baron’ brush. He bought older, smaller, rundown railroads, offered minimal improvements, and then capitalized on factory owners’ desires to ship their goods on this increasingly popular and more cost-efficient form of transportation” (515). He felt that he could charge companies whatever price he wanted to because they needed his railroad in-order to…