In 1859-60 an unknown explorer went up the Arkansas River and found gold in it’s sand and gravel. Explorers, miners, railroad expansionists, farmers and ranchers flooded the area. Railroad pushed west to serve thousands of miners. The Denver & Rio Grande Western battled for the Royal Gorge route up the Arkansas, establishing Salida in late May 1880. Economics: Salida is the service, supply, and tourism center for the Upper Arkansas Valley.
SPINDLETOP OILFIELD. The Spindletop oilfield, discovered on a salt dome formation south of Beaumont in eastern Jefferson County on January 10, 1901, marked the birth of the modern petroleum industry. The Gladys City Oil, Gas, and Manufacturing Company, formed in August 1892 by George W. O'Brien, George W. Carroll, Pattillo Higgins, Emma E. John, and J. F. Lanier, was the first company to drill on Spindletop Hill. Three shallow attempts, beginning in 1893 and using cable-tool drilling equipment were unsuccessful; Lanier and Higgins had left the company by 1895. Anthony F. Lucas, the leading United States expert on salt dome formations, made a lease with the Gladys City Company in 1899.
Process Paper Out of all the many choices I could have chose for this project, I made my decision on the Transcontinental Railroad. I am fascinated by trains and how they work. When I chose this topic, I also was thinking about how creative I could get with the display of the topic. That motivated me the most to pick this topic, however trains intrigue me very much and I realized I don’t know much about them, and how they worked and all that they helped benefit back in the day. I hope to learn a lot about the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1800’s.
The U.S. had the states of California, Nevada, and Oregon on the west coast. Territories were between the west coast states and the states beyond the Mississippi River. The population increased dramatically, from 2,148,100 in 1770 to 38,558,371 in 1870. The increase in population is caused by immigration of people to the US and slavery was another cause. Slavery and population had a big affect on the next 100 years of the United States history.
He writes informative books about a variety of social and economic issues facing a variety of cultures present in the United States as well as other countries. The author has been praised for his knowledge of the customs and lifestyles of many groups of people. Ashabranner once commented, “I write about what I know and what I have experienced.” The author is noted to do a great deal of field research and library research. He tends to interview, converse with, and sometimes even live with the people he writes about. He conveyed that library research is important to his full understanding of a subject, so he will refer to many books, articles, government reports, and scholarly studies.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo around 1846 gave the United States of America ownership of California, and large areas like New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. Mexicans in those areas had the choice of becoming U.S citizen or return to Mexico. During Civil War around 1860-1865, the United States of America needed immigrants to work on the expansion of the railroad system. In WWII the United States of America created a program called Bracero Program. The Bracero Program allowed undocumented immigrant to come to USA to work in agricultural labor.
CHAPTER 28 The New Power Balance, 1850–1900 CHAPTER OUTLINE I. New Technologies and the World Economy A. Railroads 1. By 1850 the first railroads had proved so successful that every industrializing country began to build railroad lines. Railroad building in Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Russia, Japan, and especially in the United States fueled a tremendous expansion in the world’s rail networks from 1850 to 1900.
Denver’s rail hopes remained dim until President Abraham Lincoln appointed John Evans to replace William Gilpin as territorial governor in 1862. Under the direction of Evans Denver was able to raise five hundred thousand dollars for the grading, bridging, and tie laying of railroad to be built from Denver to the Union Pacific line in Cheyenne. On June 17, 1870, the Denver Pacific was, “in plain sight … from the roof of the News Block” in downtown Denver. Soon after On August 15, 1870, the line running parallel to the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific rolled into town. It seemed Denver now had two railroads to deliver the mass amount of resources
One person Gompers did not want to associate with was the socialist leader Eugene Debs. In 1907, the AFL created strong links with the Democratic Party. However, many believed that the AFL was too moderate and did not support the unskilled workers. This led to the formation of the IWW. Most Americans feared socialism; they linked it to trade unions, mass immigration and anarchy.
The California Gold rush evoked adventurers in search of instant wealth. It all started at Sutter’s Mill by James Marshall on January 24, 1848. But it is said that it was not the first discovery of gold in California. The first actual documented discovery of gold in California was said to happen 6 years earlier in the hill about thirty miles northwest of Los Angeles. The discovery of gold sparked mass hysteria as thousands of immigrants from around the world over took what would soon be called the Gold Country of California.