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Hill also identified products that were in demand in China, including cotton, textiles, and flour, and hauled those goods to Washington to ship to Asia

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James J. Hill built the Great Northern Railroad from Wisconsin and Minnesota to Washington state without any federal land grants or subsidies

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Robber Barons are people who loot an industry and become rich unethically.

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The Crédit Mobilier scandal produced widespread anger and led to the impression that railroad entrepreneurs were “robber barons”

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Crédit Mobilier was a construction company set up by several stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad,

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Corruption in the railroad industry became public in 1872 with the Crédit Mobilier scandal

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Bribery occurred a lot partly because government was so deeply entangled in funding the railroads. Railroad investors discovered they could make more money by selling free government land grants than by operating a railroad and some bribed political representatives to vote for more grants.

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Jay Gould was perhaps the most notoriously corrupt railroad owner who practiced "insider trading" and manipulated stock prices.

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During the 1850s and 1860s the federal land grant system gave railroads more than 120 million acres of public land.

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With the railway and new technology revolutionized the railways the average rate per mile for a ton of freight dropped from two cents in 1860 to three-quarters of a cent in 1900.

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Workers completed the transcontinental railroad in only four years, despite the physical challenges. Each mile of track required 400 rails, and each rail took 10 spikes. The Central Pacific, starting from the west, laid a total of 688 miles of track. The Union Pacific laid 1,086 miles.

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The transcontinental railroad was the first of many lines that began crisscrossing the nation after the Civil War

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The Central Pacific Railroad began as the dream of engineer Theodore Judah. He sold stock in his fledgling Central Pacific Railroad Company to four Sacramento merchants: Leland Stanford, Charley Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and Collis P. Huntington. These “Big Four” eventually made huge fortunes.

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In the height of the railroads they employed over 10,000 workers. They consisted of Civil War veterans, newly recruited Irish immigrants, frustrated miners and farmers, cooks, adventurers, and ex-convicts.

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The railways became more known in 1862 thanks to the Pacific Railway Act.

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In 1865, the United States had about 35,000 miles of railroad track, almost all of it east of the Mississippi River.