A Nation of Rails How Railroads Changed America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009

A Nation of RailsHow Railroads Changed America

TAH Osceola County19 September 2009

Peter Cooper’s “Tom Thumb” Outruns a Horse (1830)

New York Central RR1850s

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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe12/rbpe121/1210220d/001dr.jpg

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe20/rbpe206/20606100/001dr.jpg

Railroad Mileage, 1869-1876

“Completion of the Pacific Railroad” (1869)

http://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon-Large.asp?Month=May&Date=29

1865

1864

http://loc.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalCartoons/DisplayCartoonLarge.asp?MaxID=&UniqueID=25&Year=1864&YearMark=

“Justice on the Rail”1872

http://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon-Large.asp?Month=March&Date=30

Pennsy in 1876

“Which Will Win?”

1873

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/html/1135.html



http://loc.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalCartoons/IndexDisplayCartoonLarge.asp?SourceIndex=Topics&IndexText=Grange+Movement&UniqueID=19&Year=1875

Banking “Panics”

Mary K. Lease

“Sockless” Jerry Simpson

William Jennings Bryan


Gold v. Silver

http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail241.html

L. Frank Baum

http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail241.html

Documents

A Nation of Rails How Railroads Changed America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009