Mackenzie Miers Honors English 14 December 2013 The Causes of the Industrial Boom Before 1860‚ the United States was known as an agricultural based nation. The United States had so much land that could be cheaply bought‚ labor work was too costly‚ and products could not be shipped quick enough. For the United States‚ being a farming community simply made more sense. While over in Europe‚ especially England‚ industrial factories were booming immensely. Except there was a great
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who‚ most likely‚ escaped through the Underground Railroad. (5 & 16) Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849‚ along with her two brothers‚ who turned back because of second thoughts. To aid her in her escape to the free state of Pennsylvania‚ Tubman used the Underground Railroad. (1) She found out about the Underground Railroad when one day‚ while she was working in the field‚ a Quaker governor handed her a “ticket” to the Underground Railroad. This “ticket” told her where to go if or when she
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Transcendentalism: The Rebellion Transcendentalism‚ as defined by Dictionary.com‚ is "any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought‚ or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical " (Transcendentalism). This new philosophy created a rebellion and turn away from the traditional religions in the United States. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are two primary authors and
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Pacific Railroad. He was the ex-governor of California with useful political connections. 2. Collis P. Huntington- He was one of the "Big Four" who was an adept lobbyist. 3. James J. Hill- He created the Great Northern railroad and was the greatest railroad builder of all time. 4. Cornelius Vanderbilt- He was the head of New York Central railroad and he financed successful western railroads. 5. Jay Gould- He made millions of dollars by embezzling stocks from several railroad companies
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specifically the railroad‚ negatively affect those who are not part of the manipulation. The railroad was a big business that got unfair advantages in government and could mistreat its workers for self-gain. With an economy
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manufacturing and wheat‚ was recovering from the Panic of 1837. Investors had stopped putting all their money into agriculture and began to invest in factories‚ railroads‚ and development of new machines. Industries of America became more productive from the American way of manufacturing‚ new agricultural developments‚ and the building of improved railroads. Americans developed their own‚ new system of manufacturing that was able to efficiently produce many parts for products. In the early 1800s‚ Eli Whitney
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1. Railroads- Railroads in each area were often controlled by one company‚ enabling those railroads to charge what they wanted. Railroads were the only way for many western farmers to get their produce to market and high prices were always charged. Railroads controlled storage‚ elevators‚ and warehouses so the prices the farmers paid were very high. Middlemen- Middlemen set the price of the produce low when they sold because the market price was unpredictable. Bankers- High interest rates caused
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innovative new technologies and services most importantly the Transcontinental Railroad and the first electric power grids. These innovations gave way to other new inventions‚ business entrepreneurs‚ and business strategies. The Transcontinental Railroad was the missing piece to the puzzle that upon completion caused a chain reaction that led to the growth of the United States economy during that time. Prior to the Civil War the railroad system stretched between northeastern and southeastern United States
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constructing railroads‚ promoting and protecting the land‚ and removing the Indian tribes. Railroads were an integral part of the west; without them the West would not be successful. The distance of the west from the rest of the country was large and the only way to reach the west was through a long‚ tiresome journey by wagon. The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 paved the way for the expansion of the railroads. The Act gave companies land to build railroads. The faster the company built the railroad‚ the
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life. The main threats to the farmers were railroads‚ trusts‚ and the government‚ because these institutions all had the power to drastically affect the ability of the farmers to make profits. Therefore‚ the farmers were not wrong to feel frustration toward those institutions when the institutions caused the farmers to live lives of increasingly extreme poverty. The main source of agrarian discontent with the railroads was a result of the rising railroad rates that made it increasingly difficult
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