HOMEWORK
for
QUIZ on Monday, September 19th
section 2;6
STUDY the notes that you took relating to the
reading that you did in class. Pay special attention to:
-Where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific met in 1869
-Transcontinental Railroad
-Who was most prominent in building the Central Pacific
-Who was most prominent in building the Union Pacific
-Casualties of the Railroad
-The efforts of Professor C.F. Dowd
-How the Railroads promoted trade and interdependence
-George Pullman
-Credit Mobilier Scandal
-How the Grange dealt with Railroad abuses:
Granger Laws, Munn v Illinois, Interstate Commerce Act
-What brought Railroads to the brink of bankruptcy
-The panic of 1893