Transcontinental railroad

Wells Fargo and Company was destined to become the leading banking company of the West, after being founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. Wells Fargo was inspired by California’s economy boom that happened after the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in the year 1849. Due to these events, Wells and Fargo along with several New York investors began to create the company we all know now as Wells Fargo that would profit from this demand. Because of California’s camps that were isolated for…

Bleeding America The Kansas-Nebraska Act, a act proposed by "Senator Stephen Douglas, a Democratic Senator from Illinois who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act"1 in hopes for the nation to build a transcontinental-railroad, hopefully having the eastern terminus in Chicago, but the railroad needed to be secure as it was going to go through the Kansas and Nebraska territories, preferably as states. Being a personal advocate of popular sovereignty, Stephen A. Douglas disliked the Missouri…

The Industrial Revolution Why was the 2nd Industrial Revolution so successful in America? How did it go so well? There are many things that contributed to the 2nd Industrial revolution but I’ll focus on five. The second Industrial Revolution was such a success because of America’s access to natural resources. America had an increased population. America’s transportation systems were very effective. The creative freedom in the US allowed for some amazing inventors. And the favorable government…

The transformation and union of the colonies of British North America into the Dominion of Canada is referred to as the Confederation of Canada. The establishment was created in 1867 by the British North American Act. Before the creation of the confederation only the United States was an independent nation in the Americas. Canada, as seen in the map “Confederation in the Beginning: 1867-1873” consisted of privatized land owners, Rupert’s Land and the Northwestern Territories while British North…

Staying neutral meant that none of the countries had an excuse to attack the United States. Remaining neutral may have concerned the other countries but it allowed for us to work on our country and not create any conflicts.Since the the U.S. gets involved in more wars now, Washington's advice isn’t a concern. The United States is a well standing country and is fighting to conserve the empire that they established. Founding Fathers established federal courts. The federal courts…

In the case of Chinese immigrants during the 1850s, they were viewed as dirty and were accused of stealing jobs even though they performed the dangerous manual labor such as building the Transcontinental Railroad. Others would try to become entrepreneurs in opening their own restaurants and trying to set afoot their food culture in America, the land of opportunity. Because there was such a negative view of the Chinese, it was difficult for people…

living with them again. The family had moved from Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas across the river to Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri sometime between 1935 and 1940. They rented their home for twenty dollars per month. Orval was still working for the railroad as a clerk in the stores department; he worked all fifty two weeks of the previous year. His income for 1939 was $1320. Orval’s eighteen year old daughter was employed checking packages at a laundry. She worked twenty six weeks for an…

Friendly gov policies (tariffs, land grants, loans) * Talented entrepreneurs A. The Business of Railroads. ~ The nation’s first big business : railroads, which had greatest impact on Am economic life. - Created a market for goods & encouraged mass production, mass consumption, & economic specialization. - Resources used promoted growth of industries (coal & steel). - The American Railroad Association dividing nation into 4 time zones (1883) - Most important : Created modern…

lead to the construction of the very first transcontinental railroad, the Panama Railway. This railway was built by Americans across Panama in order to cut several months off of the trip to California. By 1850, there were several sections of railroads in the United States, but none that crossed the country completely. On July 1, 1862, just 12 years after the gold rush, President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Bill that completed the first transcontinental railway in the United States.…

The Great Kansas Nebraska Act. The Topic I have reseached for this project is the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854. This is a huge turning point in America history because this act was the cauase of many issues and problem that led to the Civil War. The Kansas Nebraska is also significant since it led to the first time American was officially divided into slave states and non-slave states based on the people in the state. The Kansas Nebraska act was the beganing of the end of the slavery in the…