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How Did They

Government Companies/people Why Some RRs How RR What was wrong
Effects Make the
Role in RR that Built the RR Didn't Make it Improved w/ RR
Wrongs Right
Vanderbilt Built to go Destroyed Stock Granges (Fight
Money Loans Standard Gaging Jay Gould
(eastern railroads) nowhere Forest Watering Corruption)
embezzled
Granges elected
stocks from the
state officials
Land Erie, Kansas
Stimulated who make laws
(155,504,994 Steal Tracks Pacific, the
Southern Pacific Economy called Grange
Acres) Union Pacific,
Railroad Laws that
and the Texas The RW
(completed in regulate the RR.
and Pacific companies to
Pacific Railway 1884) went from Air Brake Mining and railroad
Secret Rebates Laws to the
Act New Orleans to (Westinghouse) Agriculture and Kickbacks Supreme Court
San Francisco. (Walbash vs.
Northern Pacific
Railroad stretched Ruled that
Illinois)
^^^^^^^^^^ from Lake Superior states don't
Pullman Palace
^^^^^^^^^^ to the Puget New Markets Monopoly have control of
Cars
^^^^^Subsidy Sound and was Interstate
finished in 1883. Commerce
Munn vs. Illinois
(It was a way
farmers won
move the Union Pacific Time Zones
(Just like
Military and Mail Railway Block Signal November 18, Pools
Walbash vs.
across the (Westward) 1883
Illinois but
country)
Paddies (used for before)
Double Tracks Boom Cities
Labor)
Central Pacific
The Great Millionaire on
Railway Telegraph
Northern ran from Wall Street
(Eastward)
Duluth to Seattle
and was the
Immigration
The Atchison,
creation of James
Topeka,
J. and Santa
Hill, probably the
Fe stretched
greatest railroad
throughofthe
builder all
Came Close to
Southwest deserts
Buffalo Extintion
and was
completed the
following year, in
1884.