HIST 222 Final: FINAL EXAM HIST 222 NOTES
12 Dec 2017
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America"s role in the world during this vital role in american history, grew expansively during the american industrial era. This was thanks in part by the civil war. Spurred industrialization occurred through large contracts with arms and clothing manufacturers. Corporations bought, owned a ran bonanza farms, which were large acres of wheat and corn. The greatest achievement of the gilded age and the american. Industrial era was the creation of transportation systems canals, steamboats, bridges, railroads. Innovations like the telegraph and the telephone (later) paved the way to faster communication. The pacific railway act of 1862 authorized the union pacific railway co. (uprc) and the. Central pacific railway company (cprc) tasked with completing the first transcontinental rail- system. The rail started in sacramento, california and went all the way through the sierra. Nevada with branches of smaller railways that came later on. All of this production and growth thrusted american productivity and efficiency.
