HIST 2057 Chapter : Outline Two
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Outline two hist 2057: week of january 24- january 26. Introduction to the issue (agricultural to urban after civil war) Factors behind rise (companies that do business nationwide: transportation improvement and new technologies- revolution in the railroad network, this is the biggest transformation. You can get things shipped in. filling out the railroad networks makes shipping goods long distance possible -600 %increase in railroad. Buy land on which they could build the railroad, build the boxcars, and build locomotives. They built machine shops to develop all of the locomotives they needed engineers, experts, skilled workers, managers. This was efficient and cheap and you can put more on a railroad car to ship anywhere inexpensively which quickly generated a lot of business. Everywhere the railroad went the telegraph went they did this so that they could use the telegraphs. It allowed people to communicate while on the railroad. It isn"t really available until the turn of the century.
