Transcontinental railroad

prosperity for the wealthy elite. The largest contributor to the national economic boom was the transcontinental railroad. The railroads started in the North, where the upper class was doing business in a Laisse-Faire Capitalism type manner. There were new markets for businesses to explore in free markets with limited competition. This led to the formation of corporations, monopolies, and trusts. The railroads would then transport goods out to other regions of the country. The other regions in…

Indian (d) a) Although many Choctaw Indians did resist the removal, it was a quieter one than the others. b) After the Treaty of Fort Laramie (also called the Sioux Treaty of 1868,) the Sioux were granted the ownership of the Black Hills and hunting rights to various parts of South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming. However, when gold was discovered in the Black Hills, gold prospectors began to violate the treaty, leading to the Black Hills War. When the U.S. government seized the Black Hills and…

The dispute had been taking place for years, since the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819. The establishment of the Monroe Doctrine also increased some of the tensions involved in the formation of the Oregon Territory as well. With the increased tensions in the Southwest, members of Congress and British Leadership formulated…

growing crisis that consumed the entire American nation and lead to the fighting over the future of slavery. There were many factors that caused the American Civil War in 1861, such as the Kansas Nebraska Act, the Compromise of 1850, the Transcontinental Railroad, and the Presidental Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, which formed a new political party. In the 1850’s, two key events were primary causes of the Civil War: the Dred Scott Decision and the Abolition movement and it’s literature.…

companies: the Union Pacific Railroad Company and the Central Pacific Railroad Company. The four owners of these companies were nicknamed “The Big Four”- Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Collins Huntington, and Mark Hopkins. Theodore Judah, a structural designer who helped fabricate the main railroad in California, advanced a course along the 41st parallel, going through Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. He was so fixated on the possibility of a cross-country railroad that he…

and tools, and the hide as tepees. Native Americans in the great planes like the Lakota lived nomadic lives, following the buffalo. When the white settlers began expanding West, they built the transcontinental railroad, which cut the buffalo’s land in two. The buffalo were constantly disturbing the railroad, and…

and Crusties” There is something romantic about hearing the sound of a train in the distance. It has a way of enticing the imagination--it conjures up sepia images of hardship and freedom, and leaves us with an unexplained longing. It is as if the railroad links us to our country’s past, a nostalgic reminder that some things never change. In 2008 I spent the better part of a year hopping freight and hitchhiking from Maine to Washington. Although I only rode a handful of trains, I learned a great…

question of slavery in the West. This measure, the handiwork of Senator Stephen A. Douglas, grew in part out of his desire to promote a railroad from Chicago to California through Nebraska. Already Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, advocate of a southern transcontinental route, had persuaded Pierce to send James Gadsden to Mexico to buy land for a southern railroad. He purchased the area now comprising southern Arizona and part of southern New Mexico for…

Motives Towards The Civil War The Civil War was a defining event in American History. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s there was major turmoil across the western territories due to expansion of slavery. The South’s view of slavery saw it as an essential to their nation. Since, America could not have made any growth without the help of slaves. On the other hand, the North’s view on slavery saw it as an inhumane way of life. So, this created some hefty tension between the North and the South. The…

you to monitor finances and the distribution of miners. Hopefully you can arrive by July or early August, it would be good to get started with before winter to avoid the ground getting frozen and hard or any snowfalls. Luckily, with the Transcontinental Railroad complete you can take…