Chapter 4/ Lesson 7 4.7K The Railway Labor Act of 1926 helped continue the production of railroads by alleviating lengthy processes of disputes between owners and workers. Learn the history of the railroad conflicts and the lasting effects of this act on labor dispute resolution. ...
the railroad in the American mind - civilization, as juxtaposed with the barbarism of the past. Railroads were, throughout the Western world, a symbol of civilization and progress, and the drive to bring them into the untamed parts of the world, from the "backwards" colonies in India and ...
What role did railroads play in the Industrial Revolution? How did the railways change Britain during the Industrial Revolution? How might life have been different in the 1800s if the steam locomotive had not been invented? How did the Transcontinental Railroad intensify the slavery issue? How did...
Expanding the Transcontinental Railroad: History and Impact from Chapter 1 / Lesson 4 89K On May 10, 1869, the final railway spike was driven into the ground at Promontory Summit, Utah to connect two railroads and create the first American transcontinental railroad. The completion of the rail...
This being the "Real Trains," forum I want to focus on the non modeling aspect of the hobby. I would like to hear how any participant of the forum got into the hobby in the first place, what they have done in terms of it, , and how would they describe th
Recently, rereading the biography of the 'Father of Value Investing,' Benjamin Graham, I have some new feelings about the era's background in which he grew up and formed his philosophy. In 1914, with the outbreak of World War I, the doors of the New York Stock Exchange were closed for...
Linear infrastructure (e.g. roads, powerlines, gas lines, railroads) constitutes a large part of anthropic changes in the landscape and remains in continu- ous expansion, with road length expected to increase more than 3 million km by 2050, mainly in develop- ing countries (Forman et al....
“Let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo is exterminated, as it is the only way to bring lasting peace and allow civilization to advance.”–General Philip Sheridan It’s fascinating how extreme climate changes and intercontinental migrations of invasive species could have routinely happe...
While he did not immediately want to end slavery at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln did so nonetheless. He passed the Emancipation Proclamation during the war, which made all slaves in the south free according to northern laws. Along with George Washington, President Lincoln is one of th...
Bracerosworked on farms and on railroads, making it possible for the U.S. economy to meet the challenges imposed by the war effort. existed and viewed the Bracero program as a way for the U.S. to obtain cheap labor. ... Mexico's economic development if many thousands of their workers...