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The Iron Horse: the impact of the railroads on 19th century American society


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By Marieke van Ophem

    Introduction


  1. The Industrial Revolution

    Chapter I: Early Railroads


  2. New Developments
  3. Advanced Technology
  4. Managing Big Business

    Chapter II: Debating a Transcontinental Railroad


  5. North and South
  6. Asa Whitney
  7. Conflicting Personal Interests
  8. The Surveys
  9. Indian Policies
  10. Political Changes

    Chapter III: The Great Race


  11. The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads
  12. The Meeting at Promontory Point
  13. After the Celebration
  14. Other Transcontinentals

    Chapter IV: Colonizing the West


  15. Land Departments and Bureaus of Immigration
  16. Railroad Towns
  17. Ideology
  18. Towns Shapes
  19. The Town of Pullman

    Chapter V: Labor Conflicts and Unionism


  20. The Railroad Unions
  21. The Strikes of 1877
  22. The Workingmen's Party
  23. The American Railway Union
  24. The Pullman Boycott
  25. Federal Intervention in Pullman

    Chapter VI: Railroads and Regulation


  26. Consolidations
  27. The Granger Laws
  28. The Interstate Commerce Act

    Chapter VII: The Twentieth Century


  29. Main Events of the 20th Century

    Conclusion


  30. What Was the Impact of the Railroads?