PACIFIC RAILWAY ACT TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD Union Pacific  Greenville Dodge  Civil War Vets  Ex-convicts  Cooks  Adventurers  Irish Immigrants  1086 miles of track Central Pacific  Leland Stanford  Hired workers from China  Paid $1/day  688 miles of track

HELPED THE ECONOMY  Stimulated the economy  People spent money on steel, coal, timber, and other materials

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT  Merged 3 small New York railroads to form New York Central  1871 started building Grand Central Station  1 st direct line from NYC to Chicago

TIME ZONES  4 times zones  Eastern  Central  Mountain  Pacific  Federal Government ratified in 1918  Created to avoid railroad accidents

ROBBER BARONS  People who loot an industry and give nothing back  Land Grants  Railroads sold land to settlers, real estate companies, and other businesses to raise money to build the railroads  Railroad companies were given 120 million acres of public land

JAY GOULD Corrupt Railroad owner

CREDIT MOBILER SCANDAL  Construction companies set up several stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad  Sold contracts to themselves and the railroad paid  Millions were made by the investors  Congress was sold shares of stock

JAMES J. HILL  Built the Great Northern Railroad  Offered low fares to people that lived along route  Sent supplies to the west that would go to Asia  Supplies went both ways  Only Railroad to not go bankrupt