Transcontinental railroad

Unlike his previous novels, E.L. Doctorow’s The Waterworks reads as a mystery or detective novel. The novel takes place in New York during the 1870s, during the last years of Boss Tweed’s shady rule over the city, but the narration is set decades later. The story is told through the reminiscences of an aging newspaper man McIlvaine. As one reads, the narrator is describing the past, which at the time seemed to him like the very edge of the future. MacIlvaine states: “You may think you are living…

The word immigration is defined as a person that goes and lives in a foreign country. One of the first immigrants known was Christopher Colombus, the discoverer of America. Colombus was originally migrating to India but landed in the Americas in the year 1492. Once America was discovered many Europeans came to America in search for jobs, lands, and most of all freedom. There was a specific group of immigrants that helped establish America and they are known as the thirteen colonies. The…

Abraham Lincoln once said, “ I may walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.” This man, the greatest president of the United States, and one of the greatest American influences, was always pushing himself and this country forward. Although President Lincoln helped the country in innumerable ways, his name is still controversial concerning the impression he left on America. Abraham Lincoln was commonly known as the “Savior of the Union.” He has secured the reputation beside one of the most…

protagonists and antagonists. Dagny Taggart is the hero of the novel. She is the productive Vice President of Operations at Taggart Transcontinental, a railroad empire. Incompetence and excuses are all around her, but she keeps her head down and works hard, spending most of her time cleaning up the messes of others. Specifically, her brother James. Although she had worked for the railroad since she was a teenager, James inherited the business. He resents the accomplishments of others, plunders…

Hank Rearden, and others, however, Dagny Taggart refuses to join the strike because she wants to moralize the world without forsaking it to its destruction. While developing his valley, John also works as an insignificant worker under the Transcontinental Railroad waiting for his love, Dagny Taggart, who is struggling away with worldly worries for the looters, to join him in the strike. For twelve years, he perseveres and works at such low position to remove the world’s victims of…

calling for the Indians' "concentration, their domestication, and their incorporation." Reservations were the instruments to achieve this goal.256 There were forces other than Army bullets that brought an end to the Native way of life.257 The transcontinental railroad had been completed in 1869, bringing additional immigrants to the West.258 At the same time, the systematic destruction of the massive buffalo herds…

Canadian National Railway Company, also named CN, is a modern combined company that merges many middle and small railroad companies, which is the biggest railway company in Canada and the fifth biggest railway company in the North America. Established in 1919 by the Canadian government, the CN company is the first railroad line that links the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It was a state-owned business since its establishment for up to 76 years, and it carried out…

in the western part of the United States of America, because of it there was a boom a population growth in a short period of time. It caused many of the major cities that the United States still has, also it played a huge part in the building of railroads. The Gold Rush also played a key part in the United States relations to everyone who was not “American”. The prospect of acquiring wealth can change a country…

would gain Florida and the land up to the California and Organ border from Spain in the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819. America’s good fortune continued to roll on as gold was discovered in California shortly after it was seized in the Mexican American war in 1848. Now the United States was a nation bordered by two oceans on its East and West coast…

Douglas suggested the Kansas-Nebraska Act because he wanted to remove any obstacles to the transcontinental railroad. The act allowed both Kansas and Nebraska to be admitted into the union as either a slave or free state depending on what the citizens voted and is also known as popular sovereignty. It also overturned the Missouri Compromise since the citizens…