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Generally built Western RR (Irish built Eastern RR)
Chinese are good workers because they are disciplined
There was a social system within the Chinese culture
Leland Stanford owned the Central Pacific RR. (He later founded Stanford University for his dead son)
Golden Spike Ceremony (Ogden Utah) was a big deal and even though the Chinese were excluded from the pictures they were there- shown in the Sacramento Daily B newspaper
Chinese clashed with other groups notably the Irish. The Irish (Kearney) cut Chinese men's braids off
Chinese eventually settle into the laundry industry
Doc 2: People are already thinking about creating things under "one management"- monopolies
Doc 3: Pullman Palace Cars
Pullman Palace Cars are luxurious with dining rooms and sleeping cars
People were not used to the speed of RR
No more canals once RR becomes popular
Need a lot of workers to create RR (lots died because it was laborious)
There were 5 continental RR
Chinese built the RR
Doc 4: Indians
Civil War veterans go out West (to deal with Indians)
Alliance between Big Businesses and Federal govt.
Doc 5: Indians
Put Indians on reservations (gave them some money and clothes in return but not enough...)
Railroad is so important that the Indians must leave
U.S. govt starts making agreements and Treaties in the name of the RR
Doc 6: Indians
being displaced from their homelands
Doc 7: Populist Party Platform
Populist Party= the people's party
they want RR to be owned by the federal government
Outcomes of the RR
Credit Mobilier 1872 Scandal
Great RR strike 1877
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Wabash Case 1886- States cannot interfere with interstate commerce (RR)- Govt. needs to find another way to regulate RR
ICC 1887- Federal agency that regulates RR
Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890- outlaws monopolies
Populist Party Platform 1892- anti RR. Wants RR to be owned by Govt.
American RR Union 1893- Union to protect RR workers
Depressions of 1873 + 93- over speculation of RR
America is #1 in manufacturing since 1894 (due to RR)
Pullman Strike 1894
Standard Gauge tracks + time zones
Native Americans- RR is end of Natives bc they are pushed off their land
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