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Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Began to build from:
Description of
workers:
Hardships Encounter
ed:
Omaha,Nebraska
Irish men
Nat. Am attacksDisease
Sacramento,California
Chinese men
Tunnel thru mtns
WeatherLess moneyWork longer
hoursHad to pay for
foodPoint where companies met: Promontory Point, Utah (with golden spike)
Accidents, materials shipped from far
Zulu Car - $40: backless bench: sleep underDay Coach - $75: seat lowered night w/ footrestPullman - $100: sofa bed; folded down; blanket
Company 1:$50 million
Company 2:$100 million
Company 3:$150 million
(Situation: UP - wants to hire construction
company for railroads) Federal $
Taxpayers
All parts equal, who would YOU hire?Who did the Union Pacific hire?Why did they hire this company?
•Congressmen were given stock in the Credit Mobilier company
•Lower level officials were given free passes on the
railroads anywhere
o Who?
o Why meet?
o What did they
do?
Owners of private property in which public has interest must be controlled by gov’t
Impact: railroads privately owned, but regulated by public
The PEOPLE
State can’t set rates on railroads coming into their state or leaving their state
Impact: charged one fee for each ride
Railroad rates must be reasonable and just
Impact: can’t charge more for short haul than long
• Improved Transportation• Destruction of buffalo herds (impact on Nat. Am.)
• Deaths of Immigrant Workers• Boom Towns• Big Business• Increase in graft• Government regulation to protect citizens
• Time Zones (1883)
triumph of 'American' labor and technology over the vast, inhospitable stretches of the
western landscape
OR
a huge movement westward which for the ones brought
prosperity and wealth, for others destruction and death.
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/building.htm
EXIT SLIP: ANALOGYAn analogy is a comparison of certain similarities between things which are otherwise unlike.
Ex: A street light is like a star. Both provide light at night, both are in predictable locations, both are overhead, and both serve no function in the daytime.**************************************************
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD:
An analogy for the positive impacts of the railroad –
and WHY you made that connection.
An analogy for the negative impacts of the railroad – and WHY you made that
connection.