The Iron Horse - The Impact Of The Railroads On 19th Century American Society - Marieke Van Ophem

    Introduction

  1. The Industrial Revolution
  2. Chapter I: Early Railroads

  3. New Developments
  4. Advanced Technology
  5. Managing Big Business
  6. Chapter II: Debating a Transcontinental Railroad

  7. North and South
  8. Asa Whitney
  9. Conflicting Personal Interests
  10. The Surveys
  11. Indian Policies
  12. Political Changes
  13. Chapter III: The Great Race

  14. The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads
  15. The Meeting at Promontory Point
  16. After the Celebration
  17. Other Transcontinentals
  18. Chapter IV: Colonizing the West

  19. Land Departments and Bureaus of Immigration
  20. Railroad Towns
  21. Ideology
  22. Towns Shapes
  23. The Town of Pullman
  24. Chapter V: Labor Conflicts and Unionism

  25. The Railroad Unions
  26. The Strikes of 1877
  27. The Workingmen's Party
  28. The American Railway Union
  29. The Pullman Boycott
  30. Federal Intervention in Pullman
  31. Chapter VI: Railroads and Regulation

  32. Consolidations
  33. The Granger Laws
  34. The Interstate Commerce Act
  35. Chapter VII: The Twentieth Century

  36. Main Events of the 20th Century
  37. Conclusion

  38. What Was the Impact of the Railroads?

  39. Bibliography