industrial era rail roads

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.