Life in the Camps
Life in a camp for a rail road builder meant long hard days. After working in the hot sun all day workers would have their money in pocket and be able to go back to these flimsily assembled buildings made from wood and canvases. These buildings could be anything from gambling houses or dance halls to saloons and were put up as needed. During the winter times workers would pack up their camps and stay in towns close by. Once the weather cleared up they would move back out to the rail roads and most of the time would leave these towns close to ghost towns.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-hell/
Transcontinental Rail Road
Transcontinental Rail Road had a huge impact in bring people and cultures closer together across America. With rail roads built shipment were made way easier which made product available for more people. For people at that time the world became a little smaller. More exotic food such as Japanese teas and Asian markets opened up. Rail roads also insured production boom because people weren't just selling to what was near by but now could ship across great distance. Trade was not the only thing that improved but also did travel, people could travel across the length of the continent in a matter of days. Not everyone was happy with the growth of rail roads, Native Americans were being pushed farther and farther back and over time would force Indians onto reservations within decades.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-impact/
Good Job Ryan, your article was accurate and described camp life after the work.
ReplyDeleteGood Job Nemesio, you did a good job of summarizing a broad topic into a single paragraph.
Both paragraphs are well written, but a little short, in my opinion. More about the interactions between the people in the camps, and about the treatment of the Native Americans as their population was pushed farther and farther out of their homes.
ReplyDeleteGood job, I thought the part about what the buildings were made out of was very interesting.
ReplyDeleteGood job.
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