Railroads America/ Impact on Plains Indinas

Railroads America/ Impact on Plains Indinas

1. Railroads

   • 1860-1890
   • reasons
     • enable troops to moved to control Indian upspring
     • let federal officers reach new settlements having problems with law and order
     • trade- transport goods/ raw materials to ports in Oregon and California
     • Keeps Americans in touch, creating national unity
     • help fulfil manifest destiny/ easier to migrate
   • Problems and their solutions
     • Raising money for construction- governments gift of free land
     • difficult terrain- great engineers and hard work of labourers
     • Hostile Indians attacking- unsolved
     • Finding enough people to work
   • Impact on the indians
     • Buffalo was no longer easy to hunt
     • railroads criss-crossed on the plains leading to buffalo not being able to roam freely
     • They were building railroads on Indian's 'sacred land' and attacking those building it
   • Positive outcomes
     • help start the industrial revolution
     • Improved communication
     • destroyed plain Indians way of living