Chapter 24 Prcis Paper: Industry Comes of Age The iron colt becomes the iron horse Railroads skyrocketed

ed right after the civil was, and also the track milege went from around 35,000 to almost nearly 192,000 around circa 1900. Also congress was able to to give many millions of acres of propery or land, to railroad companies, coupled with the total quantity of acres reached the size of texas and was bigger than califronia.(that is insane) The land given to the companies was separated in to a checkboard style of pattern, if the price of the land increased the company would sell the land for a huge sum of profit. There was different opinion with the people as they thought that this practice was unfair, and president Grover Cleveland also thought that this practice is also bad. Also other people stated that therailroads where what gave the land value and price, so the railroads were very vauluable.

Spanning the continent with rails Thr primary goal for the reails was the transcontinetal railroad that went from coast to coast( allegedly) It was also proposed that the union pacific to push west from Omaha. Nebreaska to California. For their work and effort the union pacific received many miled of land and, monetary compensation, as well as more money to build. There was also a credit mobiler company that made a vast amount of profit. The people who worked in the companies were alsoable to get very rich as they werer able to screw others money as there were no regulations. These people who owned the rail also had control in the government as they would be ablo to have them not punish these people for their behavior. Also the irsish workers did mopst of the ;labor in the plains, so who is in those plains, I bet it is a race of people with feathers in head, and these people made clashes with the irish workers. There was a another company by the name of the union pacific railroad that went from west to east. Leland Stanford headed the work efforts of the people from California, his partners also made a huge sum amount of money during the process, but they were clea For this companies their labor for mostly consisted of Chinese laborer The final moment in the transcontinental railroad was around 1869 near odegen, Utah and the golden spike was driven in by Stanford who actually missed.

Binding country with railroad ties By the 19th hundreds here were four more continental railroads had been built? The northern pacific railroad extended from lake superioir al the way to Puget sound, and the

The Atchison externdeed froom, Topeka, and santafe, that is Kansas to califronia. The southern pacific railroad went from new Orleans all the way to san franscisco. Also the great northern linked the rails at Duluth, from Minnesota all the way to seattle. This line was constructed by James H. Hill, who claims the name as the best railroad constructor, built them with a personal ambition to his duty. Many times this would make the twon have a booming economy due to the need for supplies as the train passed the town.

Railroad Consolidation and Mechanaization Now back east the railroads were already laid down there were other changes happening. A man by the name of COnrelius Vanderbilt but the new York central line. SO this lead him to buy all the railroads and make a standard gauge. These resulted in of a railroad consolidation that were cheaper fare also rates and faster travel times. He was the one that used steel rails inted of the old iron rails, because steel was longer and more durable thatn iron. Also this caused an advancement for technology as Westinghouse created the air brakes that made trains safer to ride. Anotehr self-proclaimed individual was George Pullman who constructed personalized cars for railroads, for those rich enough to afford them, these cars were very popular and he was able to grow rich New projects also came into place such as telegraphs to communicate when tracks were open to help prevent accidents on the rails and others mishaps that may arisein the tracks. This also meant that train crashes were very unsafe, because there was so little satey measures and regulations.

Revolution by Railways The building of the railways created a sense of unity as the ribs of steel stitched the united states together. This also lead to a larger domestic market of raw materials and other manufactured goods probably the largest untergrated national market area in the world. This produced a large pool for investors to be included in the economy This caused a new influx for immigrans that was seductively advesrtised in Europe

Cities also boomed out in the west ans these were called boom cities such as Chicago and cities in the east got what the west had to offer. A vast fortune awaited for those who wanted and got it in the railroads. There was also damage to the nature out in the west due to the new influx of settlers in the west cause ecological havoc that alsmost made buffalo extinct,in the socuth Dakota reigon. Time zones were created for seftey and so trains wouldnt clash, bedcause they had their own local time.

Wrong doing in the rail road Were overnight fortune can become possible there is corruption for those who wish to make a big earning The most notable of all was Jay Gould who practice stock watering, which was done with cattle and also applied to the stock ofunion pacific,Kansas pacific,and the texas pacific, the practice involved bloating the wight of the stock so he would get more than what was actually worth. The rich such as Cornelius Vanderr bilt said that he did not care about the law and that he wont sue you but sue you., his son was the same when he discontinues a fast mail train that stated that the public be d---Therse railroad monarchs controlled the railroad industryand also became monarchs in their own monopolies Pools were created as an agreement to divide business in order to share profits. Power only fell to the powerful and rich this was known a arailroad plutocracy.

Governtment bridles the iron horse America was know to be a free enterpirse in which free trade was to happen and wen the depressing of 1870 happened there was a protest of farmesrs who theought that they were being railroaded into bankruptcy.Under pressure form theGrange who psuehd for regulation This lead to the states trying to regulate the business as it suddenly came to a sudden hal by the Wabash Case that stated that only the federal government had the right to were to be done not the local stats, which was a big win for corporate business. Althought it was meant to help the common man it actually benifited the rich raildroad tiatns as they were the ones who got more rich as hey were ableto regulate lays through their puppets in congress. Alexander Grahm bell was the man who introduced the telephone and his firstwords on the telephone wasWatson com here from over 40 miles a day that is a long walk. Also another famous inventor was Thomas Edison who invented the light bulb that was also called the wizard of meleno park whi became filthy rich and was involed fith patent fights with Alexaander Grahm Bell.

Miracels of Mechannization Around the circa 1860 and 1984 the united states became the largest manufacturing nation from 4th to 1st because of liquid capital that means money pr a millionare class emerged to create new buisnesses Also natural resources were alwasys present in the nation and were now being put into full use. For example, the mesabi iron range of minnesonta was the largest iron deposit in the world that tremendously helped boost the economy of the united states.