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THE PRICE OF PROGRESS
And so these men of Indostan, disputed loud and long,each in his own opinion, exceeding stiff and strong,Though each was partly in the right, and all were in the wrong!
So, oft in theologic wars, the disputants, I ween,tread on in utter ignorance, of what each other mean,and prate about the elephant, not one of them has seen!
THEPRICEOFPROGRESS• RailroadsImpactonAmericaandNativeAmericans• ThosewhoBuilttheRailroads– Immigrants• TheMenWhoProfitedfromtheRRs– THETITANS• TheLaborMovementthatbeganwiththeRRs• ManifestDestiny,Imperialism,TheoryofSocialDarwinism
• RECONSTRUCTION,REDEMPTION,andJIMCROW• SYSTEMICRACISMandACTIVISM
“Unusual”RESOURCESUSEDFORWEEKONE
• RailroadsinUSHistory(1830– 2010)4dvd series,wrl.org• NOTHINGLIKEITINTHEWORLD,TheMenWhoBuilttheRailroad,StephenAmbrose• KillersoftheFlowerMoon,TheOsageMurdersandtheBirthoftheFBI,DavidGrann• ”America’streatmentofthosewhomadeitGreat”AvaChin,WashPost 5/26/19• TheRailorad Journey,TheIndustrializationofTimeandSpaceinthe19th Century,Wolfgang
Schivelbusch• https://www.history.com/news/transcontinental-railroad-changed-america• https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/tcrr/
• https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/25/nyregion/westchester-opinion-why-study-history-and-whose-history.html
THE PRICE OF PROGRESS
TheGildedAgeLate1860’sto1896
https://virginia.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex30ga-soc-definingera/defining-the-era-the-gilded-age/
WORLDFAIRSandWORLDEXPOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORFkbmHymdE
https://www.sethkaller.com/item/2138-24887-Bartholdi-Plans-for-Statue-of-Liberty-Right-Arm-and-Torch-Exhibit-at-1876-Philadelphia-Centennial-Exposition
THE2ND INDUSTRIALREVOLUTION
PROGRESSIVEERA1897- 1920
THE PRICE OF PROGRESS
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/ip/108646.htm#:~:text=The%20Progressive%20movement%20began%20with,work%20to%20improve%20U.S.%20society.&text=These%20territories%20captured%20in%20the,varied%20response%20toward%20U.S.%20occupation.
REDEMPTION&JimCrowERA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG4MSypTHy8
1870to1950orBEYOND???https://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/origins.htm
THE PRICE OF PROGRESS
• CensusMandatedbyArtI,Sec2oftheConstitution
1790– 4million1810– 7million1830–12.5million1860– 31million1870- 38million
USAdoublesinsizebetween1880and1920addingover50millionpeople
GrowthinPerspectiveYear• 1790• 1800• 1830• 1870• 1880• 1900• 1910• 1920
Population• 4million• 5.3million• 12.8million• 38.5million• 50.2million• 76million• 92million• 106million
MORETHAN67MILLIONMOREPEOPLEINUSAIN50YEARS
WHYSoMuchGrowth?
• BeginningsofFederalRegulationsonImmigration
• HomesteadActof1862• ImmigrationWaves• IndustrialRevolution
HOMESTEAD ACT OF 1862https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/homestead-act#:~:text=The%201862%20Homestead%20Act%20accelerated,free%20acres%20of%20federal%20land.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/today-in-labor-history-homestead-act-signed-for-good-and-bad/
Eventhoughoddswereagainstthem,peoplefromallwalksoflifesettledintheGreatPlains.Families,singlemen,singlewomen,formerslaves,immigrantsallqualifiedfor160acres!
HomesteadAct,signedbyA.Lincoln onMay20,1862,butnotimmediatelyenacted.Lincolnsignedthe EmancipationProclamation,freeingtheslavesonthatvery sameday,the HomesteadAct of1862 was enacted.
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/homestead-act/
RAIRAILROADS
NATIVE AMERICANS
MANIFEST DESTINY
ROBBER BARONS
LAND GRANTS
INNOVATIONSINVENTIONS
IMMIGRATION
1876 PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION
STOCK MARKET
OnlyfittingthatLincolnwouldendhispoliticallifethewayhebeganit– bytrain• https://www.up.com/heritage/history/lincoln/index.htm
RailroadsatthetimeofLincoln’sDeath
• Cobbledtogetherpiecemealbylocalentrepreneursandenterprisingtowns• Tendifferentcarrierstoconnectthefuneralroute,withnamesnolongerrelevantlikeNorthernCentral,Camden,Amboy,Columbus,Indianapolis,Lafayette,andMichiganCity
• Traincarshadtobeferriedacrosstheriversbecauserailroadsdidn’thavetheresourcestobuildbridges
• DifferingtracksizesinterferedwithlongdistanceshippingacrosstheUSA• BestqualityandconsistencycamefromEngland,butnotallRRcompanieswerewillingto“splurge.”
• 22,000milesoftrackintheNorth,9500milesoftrackintheSouth,butmostdestroyedduringtheCivilWar.
• MinimalRRtrackwestoftheMississippiRiver
