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Chapter 6 Section 2
The Age of Railroads (236)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The government gave A TON of money to help build railroads. Why? | They believed that railroads would help with westward expansion and overall help the country develop |
| What do you call a system of railroads that spans across an entire nation? | Trans-Continental Railroad |
| On the outside, railroads were a dream come true for America, they were cheap, efficient, and unlocked lots of traveling and production abilities. What was the dark side behind the scenes? | Workers were desperate Irish and Chinese immigrants, and poor Civil War vets. In 1888 the first statistics stated that 2000 workers died and 200,000 were wounded |
| Traveling on railroads was annoying because you would have to reset your watch about 20 times during the whole trip, why was this? | Each city had it's own noon, whenever the sun was highest. Noon in Boston was 12 minutes later than noon in New York |
| This person proposed that the earth be divided into 24 time-zones. With the Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pcific time zones dividing the US | C. F. Dowd |
| Railroads were unifying in the sense that they connected previously isolated cities and towns. What else did they do? | Created new cities and towns like Seattle Washington and Denver, Colorado. |
| What was George Pullman most famous for? | He built a town for his train factory employees. Although the workers received total benefits and services they were strictly rules by company laws, that instead of keeping a good work force, angered workers to the point of strike |
| What was Credit Mobilier? | A construction company created by Union Pacific railroads that charged 2 to 3 times the normal price to build railroads. The scam caught officers pocketing $23 million dollars of stocks bonds and cash |
| This group of people was especially concerned about railroad corruption and contacted the government | farmers |
| Why were farmers upset about railroad corruption? | railroads misused land grants, giving them to businesses not settlers. They formed fixed rate agreements which kept farmers in debt. They charged different customers different rates |
| What did Granger Laws do? | elected local officials to keep track of peoples interests and limited the power of the railroad officers by setting fixed, fair rates. |
| What did Munn v Illinois do? | it proved Granger Laws constitutional and proved that the government had right to regulate private industry to server public interest |
| What was the Interstate Commerce Act? | itended to appease people angered by the govs ruling of states not being able to regulate interstate trade it elected an ICC which didnt do a very good job because of long legal processes and resistance from railroads |
| Trying to keep up many railroad companies went backrupt causing this, the greatest depression ever at the time | the panic of 1893, 600 banks failed as well as 15,000 businesses |
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