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	Transcontinental railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A transcontinental railroad is a railway that crosses a continent, typically from "sea to sea".
		The first transcontinental railroad was the Panama Railway, completed in 1855.
		The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, after track was laid over a 1,756 mile (2,826 km) gap between Sacramento and Omaha in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transcontinental_railroad (1314 words)

	First Transcontinental Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built across North America in the 1860s, linking the railway network of the Eastern United States with California on the Pacific coast.
		The building of the railroad was motivated in part to bind the Union together during the strife of the American Civil War.
		This line was not the first railroad to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific; that honor goes to the Panama Railway, completed in 1855, which ran 48 miles (77 km) across Panama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad (2844 words)

	Railroads in the Late 19th Century
		Receiving millions of acres of public lands from Congress, the railroads were assured land on which to lay the tracks and land to sell, the proceeds of which helped companies finance the construction of their railroads.
		Smaller railroads had to purchase land on which to lay their tracks from private owners, some of whom objected to the railroads and refused to grant rights of way.
		Railroad construction crews were not only subjected to extreme weather conditions, they had to lay tracks across and through many natural geographical features, including rivers, canyons, mountains, and desert.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/timeline/riseind/railroad/rail.html (374 words)

	transcontinental railroad - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD [transcontinental railroad] in U.S. history, rail connection with the Pacific coast.
		The law provided that the railroad be built by two companies; each received federal land grants of 10 alternate sections per mile on both sides of the line (the amount was doubled in 1864) and a 30-year government loan for each mile of track constructed.
		The transcontinental railroads immeasurably aided the settling of the west and hastened the closing of the frontier.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-transcon.html (593 words)

	Digital History
		Along with the development of the atomic bomb, the digging of the Panama Canal, and landing the first men on the moon, the construction of a transcontinental railroad was one of the United States' greatest technological achievements.
		Railroad track had to be laid over 2,000 miles of rugged terrain, including mountains of solid granite.
		Before the transcontinental railroad was completed, travel overland by stagecoach cost $1,000, took five or six months, and involved crossing rugged mountains and arid desert.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /database/article_display.cfm?HHID=177 (868 words)

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		Railroads and steam propulsion developed separately, and it was not until the one system adopted the technology of the other that railroads began to flourish.
		The possibility of railroads connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts was discussed in the Congress even before the treaty with England which settled the question of the Oregon boundary in 1846.
		Railroads were also needed in the West to provide better postal service, as had been developed in the East, by designating railroad lines "post roads" in 1838.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrintro.html (4835 words)

	Historic Construction Projects - Transcontinental Railroad
		Fully aware of the benefits such a railroad promised for trade with China and East India, Whitney declared his intention to build a railroad from Lake Michigan through the South Pass to the Pacific, backed with a land grant 60 miles wide along the length of the road.
		However, with the Southern states out of the picture the major antagonism to the transcontinental railroad was gone, and both the Senate and House of Representatives were able to pass the Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864.
		While the Transcontintental Railroad was started in the midst of a war that divided America, its completion marked a new unity and connection between the east and west coasts that further defined the United States as a single nation.
	generalcontractor.com /resources/articles/transcontinental-railroad.asp (2208 words)

	The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
		At the time when Eastern railroads were struggling to cross the Alleghenies and reach the Ohio or the Great Lakes, pioneering spirits already dreamed of a railroad that would cross the American continent.
		Haunted by the prospects a transcontinental railroad promised for the China and East India trade, in which he was an expert, Asa Whitney was the first to promote the idea of such a railroad on a grand scale.
		The discovery of gold in California not only created the first important transcontinental traffic (much of which was channeled through Panama or Nicaragua), but also significantly changed the public attitude towards the territories that joined the United States after the Mexican War and the Oregon compromise.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/railroad_barons/transcontinental1.asp (497 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Lesson Plan on the Transcontinental Railroad — For grades 6-12, with activities that could be adapted for younger students.
		Though it was convenient for workers to live near the railroad, it was not a desirable location because of noise, pollution, and the lack of privacy.
		The operation of the Transcontinental Railroad required that a standardized national time system be established to insure that it was running on time.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=253 (2984 words)

	Transcontinental Railroad...Building
		Sometimes whole towns were planned around a railroad track...buildings that had once been inns and taverns catering to the stagecoach trade became rail depots...a new social caste system was spreading in the wake of the railroad.
		Abraham Lincoln, a young lawyer, defended the railroad, armed with evidence prepared by an engineer, Robert E. Lee, showing that there was no significant current at the time of the accident and that the steamboat was at fault.
		Between Council Bluffs, Iowa and the Pacific coast (the goal of the coming transcontinental railroad) lay the snowcapped rugged mountains of the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, seemingly endless plains and prairies, wind-whipped canyons, wild rivers, and desert heat.
	www.geocities.com /railstudents/building.html (2127 words)

	Building the Transcontinental Railroad
		The idea of a transcontinental railroad first surfaced in 1832 in an announoumous letter in the weekly newspaper- The Emigrant published in Ann Arbor Michigan.
		After working in the engineering department of a number of eastern railroads, he was hired to build a railroad in California between Sacramento and Folsum.
		With the outbreak of the Civil War Congress quickly passed the Pacific Railroad Act it called for the establishment of a new railroad, the Union Pacific, which would lay track westward from Omaha and the Central Pacific.
	www.multied.com /railroad/Trans.html (670 words)

	Transcontinental Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Transcontinental Railroad was the first attempt at building a railroad route that would span an entire continent.
		The Transcontinental Railroad was important to a young, developing nation.
		Prior to the Transcontinental Railroad, goods would either be hauled by wagon or transported by ship from the east coast to the west coast by way of the Atlantic Ocean, around the southern tip of South America, and into the Pacific Ocean to California, Oregon, and Washington.
	www.hotsprings.k12.wy.us /railroad/index.htm (238 words)

	Transcontinental Railroad \| Utah.com
		The Promontory Branch of the railroad was replaced in 1904 by the Lucin Cutoff, a shorter route built on pilings across the Great Salt Lake.
		The Transcontinental Railroad National Back Country Byway is administered by the Bureau of Land Management for public use and enjoyment.
		Due to its unique history and scenic beauty, the Transcontinental Railroad Grade is a designated Area of Critical Environmental Concern and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.utah.com /playgrounds/transcontinental.htm (690 words)

	History of the Transcontinental Railroad
		The work of the railroad men cannot be fully appreciated without first understanding the history behind the building of the first Transcontinental Railroad.
		The history of this great railroad goes back to the time when the first steam locomotives were moving on the first tracks in the nation.
		The first convention for the planning of the Pacific Railroad (as this first transcontinental railroad was called) was held in 1838 by John Plumbe.
	bushong.net /dawn/about/college/ids100/history.shtml (1297 words)

	Transcontinental Railroad - Driving the Last Spike - 1869
		Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins were the “Big Four” that conceived this enterprise and brought it to a successful ending after years of daily struggle that would have exhausted the patience and spirit of ordinary men.
		That pioneer railroad line of the middle ’60s formed the basis of the gigantic Southern Pacific system.
		The connection of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific bridged the 2000 miles to the Missouri River, and the four to six months time taken by the overland pioneers was reduced to six days.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist1/rail.html (554 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Lesson Plans Index
		Using a variety of maps, students assess the need for a transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
		The Central Pacific Railroad had to lay track in the mountainous region of the Sierra Nevadas, one of the most difficult endeavors of the entire enterprise.
		Compare the building of the Transcontinental Railroad to various projects currently being advanced in the Brazilian rainforest.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/lesson_plans/lesson01.htm (3012 words)

	The Transcontinental Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The railroad is a symbol of great engineering feats and is part of America's beginning love story with technology.
		One of the most amazing feats in railroading is the building of the transcontinental railroad.
		Built not with machine-powered vehicles, such as dump trucks and bulldozers, the railroad was built almost entirely "with bare hands and coordinated skill" [Howard 327].
	bushong.net /dawn/about/college/ids100 (213 words)

	America on the Move \| A Century of Progress?
		For those enthusiastic about expansion, the completion of a transcontinental railroad link in 1869 was the achievement of the age.
		It is decorated with icons of the American past and visions of progress, such as the Centennial Exhibition building in Philadelphia.
		In the 20 years that followed the centennial, American railroad companies added more than 100,000 miles of track to the system, further connecting the nation’s economy, politics, and cultures.
	americanhistory.si.edu /onthemove/exhibition/exhibition_1_3.html (288 words)

	THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
		Students will be introduced to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
		List at least 3 nicknames given to railroad workers and why they were given those names.
		Railroad builder James Strobridge argued that Chinese were too frail.
	www.pleasval.k12.ia.us /juniorhigh/TRRR/transcontinental_railroad.htm (1048 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - Transcontinental Railroad
		The idea for a transcontinental railroad "to shrink the continent and change the whole world" was first proposed by men of imagination in 1830.
		In 1864 thousands of Chinese in Kwantung Province were recruited by Central Pacific Railroad Co. to work on the western portion of transcontinental railroad.
		The roadbed was blasted out of the solid rock mountainside in the fall of 1865 by lowering Chinese workers (also known as "Celestials" after the "Celestial Kingdom" as these tireless workers referred to their homeland) on ropes down the sheer cliff face.
	cprr.org (1165 words)

	Building the Transcontinental Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This railroad would allow people and goods to travel from coast to coast in days instead of weeks to months.
		Railroad lines from the east ended at Omaha at that time.
		The Central Pacific Railroad built eastward fromSacramento, and the Union Pacific Railroad built westward from Omaha.
	www.usfca.edu /classes/AuthEd/immigration/railroadinfo.htm (313 words)

	Completing the Transcontinental Railroad, 1869
		Although everyone thought a transcontinental railroad was a good idea, deep disagreement arose over its path.
		Construction of the railroad presented a daunting task requiring the laying of over 2000 miles of track that stretched through some the most forbidding landscape on the continent.
		Finally the two sets of railroad tracks were joined and the continent united with elaborate ceremony at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /goldenspike.htm (891 words)

	Transportation: Transcontinental Railroad \| eThemes \| eMINTS
		This map shows the 10 transcontinental railroad lines that existed in the 1880s.
		This PBS lesson plan is about the affect of the transcontinental railroad on American life.
		This short article is about the role Congress played in the planning and construction of the transcontinental railroad.
	www.emints.org /ethemes/resources/S00000752.shtml (499 words)

	Chinese Immigrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
		n 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, Congress authorized the most ambitious project that the country had ever contemplated: construction of a transcontinental railroad.
		Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, civil turmoil and poverty had led many Chinese to emigrate to California, the "Golden Mountain." As early as 1852, there were 25,000 Chinese immigrants in California.
		These workers quickly earned a reputation as tireless and extraordinarily reliable workers--"quiet, peaceable, patient, industrious, and economical." Within two years, 12,000 of the Central Pacific railroad's 13,500 employees were Chinese immigrants.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gl/china1.htm (623 words)

	Amazon.com: Nothing Like It In The World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869: Books: Stephen E. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Building a transcontinental railroad, writes the prolific historian Stephen Ambrose, was second only to the abolition of slavery on Lincoln's presidential agenda.
		To critics who charge that the railroad magnates were corrupt and grew obscenely rich and powerful through land grants and government bonds, Ambrose replies that the land grants never brought in enough money to pay the bills and, further, that the bonds were loans, fully paid back with huge interest payments.
		In building the railroad, the Army played a key role in scouting the West and protecting the rail crews, and it profited from the railroad through dramatically lowered costs in time and money for moving forces and sustaining them.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684846098?v=glance (2019 words)

	Transcontinental Railroad
		The Central Pacific Railroad Company recruited Chinese laborers from China to come to the United States to build the railroad.
		The railroad company led the Chinese to believe that they would make a great amount of money for easy labor.
		rite a speech telling why the transcontinental railroad is important.
	www.usfca.edu /classes/AuthEd/immigration/railroad.htm (193 words)

	LearnCalifornia.org - Transcontinental Railroad
		The Transcontinental Railroad was commissioned during this war, in order to link California more closely with the Eastern States.
		This passionate young engineer discovered a pass through the Sierras, and was indispensable in his advocacy of a transcontinental railroad.
		Profits from the construction companies they owned to which they contracted the construction of their railroad.
	www.learncalifornia.org /doc.asp?id=936 (379 words)

	CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
		Chinese labor was suggested, as they had already helped build the California Central Railroad, the railroad from Sacramento to Marysville and the San Jose Railway.
		By the summer of 1868, 4,000 workers, two thirds of which were Chinese, had built the transcontinental railroad over the Sierras and into the interior plains.
		On May 10, 1869, the two railroads were to meet at Promontory, Utah in front of a cheering crowd and a band.
	cprr.org /Museum/Chinese.html (8502 words)

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