CAS WR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Pacific Railroad Acts, Social Class
19 Mar 2016
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Prompt 1: meaning of innovaion & how it has changed. Theme: revoluion of transportaion on lifestyle and advancement of society. How negaive aspects of the rr sstem, including controversries, events, segregaion, and separaism, have led forth to posiive aspects to history and society and economics. Or how has the innovaion afected this history? ( ex rosa parks) Claim: / many realize what the rr had bought. But the invenion of the telegraph in boston created the possibility of transconinental rr. (overland teleraph and paciic telegraph) transconinental to western union. Easy accessibility for good sto go west. This has brought revoluion to commercializaion and travel. Situaion: historically, rr has brought innovaion in transportaion and lifestyle, as well as economic compeiion as ime grew. Quesion: no one quite knows yet how the rr system promoted more compeiion (victorian) but also social and race segregaion. Signiicance: how the rr has brought advancement from the ground up.
