ILRLR 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pacific Railroad Acts, 32Nd Parallel North, Wisconsin National Guard
27 Jun 2016
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Railroad expansion and the great strike of 1877: Chicago residents bought stock subscriptions in railroad companies. Railroads could increase the value of the land people owned. Railroads could help farmers sell crops in more markets and faster - transport grain not by wagon. Owners need more subscriptions than could be provided by local farmers. For some longer lines, of the stock owned by europeans. With the southern states in secession, it designated the 32nd parallel as the initial transcontinental route and gave huge land grants for rights-of-way. Government effort to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the missouri river to the pacific ocean. Abraham lincoln decided to make it the first intercontinental railway with a standard gauge (4 ft, 8 in) Railroads change perceptions of time and space: 31,286 miles of american railroads but no single standard gauge.
