Download or read book The First Transcontinental Railroad written by John Debo Galloway and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Transcontinental Railroad written by Marilyn Miller and published by Silver Burdett Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the construction of the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, and other related railroads which joined the east and west coasts by meeting at Promontory Point, Utah, and views both the early days of railroads preceding that event and the effects of the transcontinental railroad thus formed.

Download or read book The First Transcontinental Railroad written by James K. Wheaton and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2011 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Transcontinental Railroad, originally called the Pacific Railroad, was a railroad built in the United States between 1863 and 1869 that connected the western part of America with its eastern part. Built by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad, it connected the Eastern terminus of Council Bluffs, Iowa/Omaha, Nebraska with the railroad lines of the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California. In time, it would link in with the existing railway network present on the Eastern Coast of America, thus connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coast of the United States for the first time by rail. Because of this, the line received a second nickname, “the Overland Route.” The railroad was a government operation, authorized by Congress during the height of the Civil War. Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Acts in 1862 and again in 1864. To pay for it, the US government issued 30 year bonds, as well as granting government land to contractors. The construction of the line was a major achievement by both the Union Pacific (constructing westward from Iowa) and the Central Pacific (constructing eastward from California). The line was officially opened on May 10, 1869, with the Last Spike driven through the railway at Promontory Summit, Utah. James K. Wheaton looks at the history in this eBook.

Download or read book The Central Pacific Railroad Co written by Creed Haymond and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Relations Between the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the United States Government written by Central Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Union and Pacific Central Railroad Letter from the Secretary of the Interior in Answer to a Resolution of the House of the 15th Instant Relative to the Rules by which the Beginning Point of the Claim of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads was Ascertained February 19 1867 Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gateway to Freedom The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad written by Eric Foner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.

Download or read book Excursion of the Directors and Stockholders of the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad November 1866 written by Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Transcontinental Railroad written by Michael V. Uschan and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorful and easy-to-read volume presents background of the Transcontinental railroad, including the increasing demand for land and the partnership between government and wealthy individuals. It tells the tale of how more than 1,700 miles of track were built through mountains and deserts by using mere shovels and picks. The book explains the impact of the railroad on the nation's settlement and how Native Americans lost their land to white homesteaders. Readers will learn about the technical challenges and huge scale of the task overcome by the hard labor of thousands of workers to connect the nation across itself.

Download or read book History of the Union Pacific Railway written by Henry Kirke White and published by Chicago, University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1895 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Union Pacific Railroad a Brief History written by Union Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Union Pacific Railroad written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and description of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Download or read book Union and Central Pacific Railways written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Union Pacific Central Pacific Southern Pacific written by Union Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Union Pacific written by Nelson Smith Trottman and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How We Built the Union Pacific Railway written by Grenville M. Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Transcontinental Railroad written by Eric Kraft and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of men, billions of dollars according to today's estimates, and seemingly insurmountable obstacles characterized the building of the transcontinental railroad--a tremendous achievement! Today, this accomplishment is viewed as a major factor in binding our nation together.