The situation was not convenient because travel was slow and difficult. It could take months to travel across the United States in the early 1800s. One of the best ways to travel and ship goods before the Industrial Revolution was the river. At that time people use horses, boats, and wagons. Sometimes they walk. Afterward Americans expanded to the west. They built a railway to unite the nations. When it was finally finished, in 1869, the workers took a picture in Promontory. Utah where the tracks met.
Americans wanted to expand to the west because first in the east it was not as easy to get by with walking, riding a horse or using a wagon, second they can claim the land for their own. For example in the east a villager wants to walk around his house but there are always trains passing his no-fence garden and people that walk through his garden. But in the west he can walk around his house freely. We all want to have a better life and service. We all want to be happy.
The railroad they built was very hard and it was constructed between 1863-1869. About roughly 21,000 workers needed to attended this big hard work, and it cost about $60 million. About 15,000 were Chinese laborers but they were paid less than American laborers.There are also a lot of other unfair things. For example Chinese laborers were unrespected then later on forgotten in the USA railroad history.Chinese workers should be the same as American workers in terms of remuneration and services. They should also be respected.
The benefits of the new railway is that counties are able to more easily work together due to the decreased travel time. People are able to travel to distant locations much more quickly than if they were using only horse-powered transportation. It also makes trading creased and sometimes people will find out that it can do more than they thought. For example maybe when people use the new railway they found that transportation are faster and new towns are born. Sometimes something is more than you think.
Railroad is something we cannot ruin at present, if we ruin it at present then we need to use more electricity, oil, rubber, metal, iron, glass and paint. But when we ran out of them then we might not get them back. But most of all it will hurt the family members’ (of the workers that built it) feelings.
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