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Amsco APUSH Chapter 16 Study Guide with Complete Solutions nation's first big buisness - Answer️️ -Railroads Cornelius Vanderbilt - Answer️️ -used his $$$ from steamboat business to merge local railroads into the New York Central Railroad (1867) 4,500 miles of track Eastern trunk lines...

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Amsco APUSH Chapter 16 Study Guide
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nation's first big buisness - Answer✔️✔️-Railroads


Cornelius Vanderbilt - Answer✔️✔️-used his $$$ from steamboat business to merge local

railroads into the New York Central Railroad (1867) 4,500 miles of track

Eastern trunk lines - Answer✔️✔️-A trunk line was the major route between cities; w/

smaller branches reaching w/ outlying towns (result of diff. gauges pre-civil war)

-Vanderbilt capitalized on connecting these

transcontinental railroads - Answer✔️✔️-Railroads connecting the west and east coasts

of the continental US

Union and Central Pacific - Answer✔️✔️--Union Pacific (UP) Omaha Nebraska → Great

Plains

-Central Pacific (Cali→East) Led by Charles Crocker

6,000 Chinese immigrants (UNSAFE+DANGEROUS)

American Railroad Association - Answer✔️✔️-created "standard time" for timezones

Railroads and Timezones - Answer✔️✔️-They needed to run on a consistent schedule so

in 1884 four time zones were created (i.e Standard time by American Railroad

Association)

Speculation and overbuilding - Answer✔️✔️-caused the Financial Panic of 1893



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