First Transcontinental Railroad

Mostly because there weren't enough willing Americans to do the job. Railroad construction was HARD labor, and after the Civil War most native-born people were looking to live a quiet, settled farming life.

Also, the desperate Irish and Chinese laborers would take more abuse than their American counterparts. They had come from lands where poverty and famine were normal and were happy to have steady work -- no matter how dangerous or hard it was. The Chinese were especially industrious and didn't drink, though opium abuse was an issue sometimes.

It brought California closer ti the industrialized northeastern states.

There are 5 stops on the Disneyland Railroad's route.

The big companies give rebates or discounts to their biggest customers causing small companies to go out of business. However, the tycoons soon realized that the competition would decrease their profits, so they came up with another idea, pooling. Several railroads companies agree to divide up the business in areas.

positive effects, yo: i think that the growth of railroads in the US probably helped the economy because people were able to use them for travel which in turn added income to the economy by them having to purchase tickets. another way positive effect would probably be that we were able to ship and receive imports and exports alot faster using the railroad systems.

negative effects, yo: the only negative effects that i can think of would be that it definitely polluted our environment, and that it took alot of money away from the country's budget to build railroads and purchase locomotives.

He did not have kids, nor did he marry.

In 1862 Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act, which designated the 32nd parallel as the initial transcontinental route and gave huge grants of lands for rights-of-way. The act was an effort to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean and to secure the use of that line by the government.

It was partially funded by government grants of land along the route. The railroad companies had to sell the land in order to receive the money. The railroads thus funded were required to pay back the government by giving discounts on shipping of government goods until the 1940s when it was recognized that they had "paid back" far more than they had originally received.

Brigham Young, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was involved in the construction of the transcontinental railroad in Utah. He obtained contracts with the Union Pacific to build the railroad through Utah. Mormons then built the Union Pacific track in the Utah territory.

Not really, despite its name. The first "transcontinental railroad" ran only from Omaha, Nebraska on the eastern end to San Francisco, California on its western end. Omaha, on the western bank of the Missouri River, is about 1,200 miles from the East Coast of the United States. However, there was already a network of railroads east of the Missouri River, so that after completion of the transcontinental railroad, someone could travel from the East Coast to San Francisco by railroad with only one interruption: a ferry across the Missouri River.

May 10, 1869 was the date that the golden spike was driven , near Promontory, Utah, thereby joining the eastern and western portions of the transcontinental railroad.

Go to Union Pacific's website, click on jobs at UP, it will give a list of states where there are job openings. Click on Missouri, IF any openings exist at the DeSoto MO railroad shop, it will be there. They will only take online applications when they have openings, it will also tell you when the closing date for taking applications for those jobs is.

Ulysses Grant was the US president when the transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869.

Sacramento, California.

It tied the nation together.

The Transcontinental railroad was needed because the mining industry created a need for faster transportation-- stage coach lines and wagons were not moving fast enough.

there might be people who likes the railway on their land so they could sell their goodsbetter, however there were people who don't want the railway on their land.

Goods produced in one region could be sent to another and sold.

The U.S. Government

connect east and west. Also needed to move the indians from the path and also needed Chinese labor

with 30 year bonds and generous

Goods produced in one region could be sent to another and sold.

#1: it helped to settle the west

#2: the east was brought closer to the west

May 10, 1869