Хронология Трансконтинентальной Железной Дороги
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- GOLD RUSH BEGINS
- "GOLD, BOYS, GOLD!" -James Marshall
- U.S. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
- Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill, California by James Marshall, sparking the Gold Rush. By 1849, around 90,000 "forty-niners" moved to California to find gold!
- КАЛИФОРНИЯ СТАНОВИТСЯ ГОСУДАРСТВОМ
- California is officially admitted to the Union as the 31st state. It is a "free state" where slavery will be illegal.
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- THEODORE ИУДА НАХОДКИ ROUTE
- "I am going to California to be the pioneering railroad engineer of the Pacific coast!"
- Теодор Джуда был инженером , который верил в строительстве железной дороги , чтобы соединить восточные и западные США. Он открыл идеальный маршрут для Тихоокеанской железной дороги через перевал Доннер в горах Сьерра-Невада. «Безумный Иуда» был центральной фигурой в становлении железной дороги. Он нашел инвесторов для того, что стало Центрально-Тихоокеанской железной дорогой (CPRR).
- PACIFIC RAILWAY ACT
- "There is nothing more important before the nation than the building of the railroad to the Pacific."
- Президент Линкольн подписал Закон Железнодорожного Тихого , который уполномочил Central Pacific Railroad Company , чтобы построить линию дорожки из Сакраменто и уполномочиваемой Union Pacific Railroad компании построит запад от реки Миссури. Точка встречи не назначена. В законопроекте каждой компании было обещано 6400 акров земли и 48 000 долларов в виде государственных облигаций за каждую построенную милю.
- Закон Pacific Railway
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- CENTRAL PACIFIC НАЧИНАЕТСЯ
- UNION PACIFIC НАЧИНАЕТСЯ
- Central Pacific Railroad Company начала работу строительства железной дороги от Сакраменто на востоке. 26 октября 1863 года он поставил первые рельсы на шпалы.
- CHINESE WORKERS EMPLOYED ON CENTRAL PACIFIC
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- The Union Pacific Railroad Company began work building the railroad from Omaha Nebraska westward. On Dec. 2, 1863, the company held a groundbreaking ceremony in Omaha, Nebraska.
- CPR began to employ people who were Chinese immigrants as laborers in addition to their predominantly Irish immigrant labor force. It is estimated that 12,000 Chinese immigrants and 10,000 Irish immigrants worked on the transcontinental railroad. Chinese people were paid less than people of European descent.
- CIVIL WAR VETERANS SEEK WORK ON RAILROADS
- It is backbreaking work but I can slowly save for my family to join me and have a better life.
- After the Civil War ended, thousands of veterans headed west to seek work on the railroads. Many found work on the Union Pacific Railroad company along with many Irish immigrants.
- Золотой колос AT мыс POINT
- On May 10, 1969 the first transcontinental railroad was officially completed as the Union Pacific line from the east and the Central Pacific line from the west joined their 1,700 miles of track. Representatives from both companies took turns driving the final golden spike into the ground during a ceremony at Promontory Point in Utah.
- КИТАЙСКИЙ ИСКЛЮЧЕНИЕ ACT
- On May 6, 1882, the United States Congress passed the racist Chinese Exclusion Act which prohibited any further immigration of people from China. This Act was particularly egregious in that it ignored the heroic and crucial role Chinese people played in the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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