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The document summarizes the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States in the 19th century. The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 called for the construction of the first transcontinental railroad to unite the country during the Civil War. The Central Pacific railroad company built eastward from California, while the Union Pacific built westward from Nebraska, using Irish immigrants, veterans, and thousands of Chinese laborers. The two lines met at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869, dramatically reducing travel time across the country and ushering in population growth and development in the American West.

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Presidential Abraham Lincoln signed a bill on July 1, 1862 to authorize the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. On May 10, 1869, several years ahead of the timeline, the Pacific Railroad was completed at a joyous ceremony in Promontory Summit, Utah. Suppose the train coming from the East, actually called No. 119, came to a flat part of the country and could travel at a constant speed of 32 miles per hour for many miles. A) If the train ran for 3.5 hours before altering its speed, how far did the train travel during that stretch of the transcontinental strip? B) Show the formula and steps you utilized to arrive at your answer. Include the appropriate units in each step of your work. Velocity is the change in position divided by the change in times. Speed is the absolute value of velocity. Since the train originated from the train station and is traveling away from the train station, we will say that this train had a positive velocity. C) For the train to have a negative velocity, it would have to ______. D) Draw a graph of the velocity function on the grid. Scale the axes and name the vertical axis as v(t) mph and the horizontal axis as t hours E) Explain how the graoh of the velocity function can be used to calculate the toal distance the train traveled in 3.5 hours. Solution The Transcontinental Railroad was the result of the U.S. commitment to Manifest Destiny and its burgeoning industrial might. Long distances and slow transportation hampered contact between eastern and western commercial centers. Both the United States government and entrepreneurs sought faster transportation to link the two sections. For a decade after 1850, Congress studied possible transcontinental routes, but arguments over sectionalism and slavery blocked all plans. Not until after the South seceded and the Civil War had begun could Congress pass an effective transcontinental plan, the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. It called for two railroad companies to complete the transcontinental line. The railroad would be a \"land-grant railroad,\" meaning that the government would give each company 6,400 acres of land and up to $48,000 for every mile of track it built. The money capitalized the project, and the railroads could use the land to entice settlers to the West, who in turn would need the railroads to haul freight. But Congress, afraid to fund a project that would never be completed, wrote a caveat into the act: the railroads had to complete the project by July 1,1876, or they would forfeit the land, money, and all of the constructed track. The Union Pacific Railroad, a corporation formed for the venture, would build the eastern half of the line starting in Nebraska. The Central Pacific Railroad, owned by a group of California entrepreneurs including Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford, would build the western half. Preliminary work began, even as the nation still fought the Civil War. Surveyors and engineers had to scout and map workable routes. Af.

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By Brandon Foo The Race Across America: The First Transcontinental Railroad Introduction:The transcontinental railroad was an innovated technology by conveniently and efficiently letting people travel across the country. Replacing months of travel to mere weeks, it allowed communication and trade across vast amounts of distances. It employed both Chinese immigrants and Irish workers who helped build the railroad. After it was completed, it united the country together and helped build the way for commerce, people and ideas to travel from the east to the west. Union Pacific Railroad Part 1: How it was builtThe Union Pacific Railroad would start at Omaha, Nebraska and go west Central Pacific RailroadThe Central Pacific Railroad would start at Sacramento, California and go east Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864It outlined how the railroad was going to be built, the route it was going to take and how it was going to get funded. The path that they would go through followed the established Oregon and California trails, which was used at the time by wagon trains, stagecoach lines and the Pony Express. Black Powder/Nitroglycerin Part 2: Technology UsageBlack powder was usually used to blast through the hard rock, but some situations, nitroglycerin had to be used. Nitroglycerin at the time was fairly new as a blasting tool and was very dangerous to transport, so they had to make it on the site. Telegraph LinesBrought instant communication to people working along the tracks to people across the nationUsed on the day the railroad was completed where telecommunication lines were wrapped around the last spike on the track and whenever the person struck the spike, the sound pulsated across the nation. Snow sheds Part 2 ContinuedSnow and avalanches were delaying construction and supervisors had to devise a plan to overcome it. Snow sheds were built by making a shelter over the tracks so the snow would not interfere the construction of the railroad Bridges/Trestle BridgesTrestle bridges were built when there was a deep gorge that the railroad had to go over and was usually built with timber until it could have been replaced with iron, which is more durable and permeant. Chinese Immigrants Part 3: Social ImpactThe Chinese were the backbone of building the tracks for the Central Pacific and compromised nearly 80% of the workforce They worked in eight hour shifts and only stopped when another person had to put in the black powder, where they lit fuse and would then run to a safe distance to avoid the explosion. Irish Immigrants and Civil War VeteransOn the Union Pacific Railroad, it mostly consisted of Irish immigrants and Civil War Veterans.The Irish workers and veterans constantly got drunk, went to brothels and gambling dens which brought a lot of vices to the towns that the tracks went through. Mormons Part 3 ContinuedThe main reason why the Mormons worked on the railroad was because it would go through the Utah territ ...

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