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The transcontinental railroads were built and owned by private companies but financed by the public (with one exception, James J. Hill's Great Northern). The sparseness of population between the Mississippi Valley and California and Oregon (Washington State after 1889) made it impossible to attract private investors to railroads connecting the East and West. Construction was too expensive
Building a mile of track meant bedding 3,000 ties in gravel and attaching 400 rails to them by driving 12,000 spikes. Having built that mile in Utah or Nevada, a railroader had nothing to look forward to but hundreds more miles of scarcely inhabited desert mountains. With no customers along the way, there would be no profits; without profits, no investors. The federal government had political and military interests in binding the Pacific Coast to the rest of the Union, and, in its land, the The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 granted to two companies, the Union Pacific (UP) and the Central Pacific (CP), a right of way 200 feet wide between Omaha, Nebraska, and Sacramento, California. For each mile of track that the companies built, they were to receive, on either side of the tracts, 10 alternate sections (square miles) of the public domain. The result was a belt of land 40 miles wide, laid out like a checkerboard on which the UP and the CP owned half the squares. The railroads sold the land to provide the money for construction and created customers in the buyers. Or they used their vast real estate as collateral against which to borrow cash from banks. In addition, depending on the terrain, the government lent the two companies between $16,000 and $48,000 per mile of track at bargain interest rates. "For each mile of track that the companies built, they were to receive...10 alternate sections of the public domain." "The result was a belt of land..." a. example b. illustration c. cause and effect d. statement and clarification
Usar subtítulos para recordar detalles. Lea los subtítulos de las cuatro secciones del Enfoque del tema: La asombrosa cultura latinoamericana. Luego escriba la letra del subtítulo en el que se encuentra cada detalle. Vocabulario: estornudo sneeze.
1. _____ ¡El estornudo° mataba a más indígenas que la espada! 2. _____ Cuando los españoles llegaron a las Américas, había más de 400 grupos indígenas en diversos niveles de desarrollo. 3. _____ El comercio de esclavos llegó a ser un negocio muy lucrativo. 4. _____ En las colonias españolas el mestizaje fue la norma. 5. _____ En Latinoamérica la música afroamericana ha producido el famoso ritmo latino… 6. _____ Hay latinoamericanos de origen alemán, árabe, chino, francés, inglés… 7. _____ Nadie sabe por qué existen las diferencias culturales, pero en parte es una consecuencia de la historia. 8. _____ Por fin, en las dos primeras décadas del siglo XIX la mayoría de las colonias españolas… abolieron la esclavitud. 9. _____ Sin embargo, para los indígenas, la guerra era casi una ceremonia. 10 _____ Un niño inglés que viajaba por España con su padre le preguntó un día: «Papá, ¿por qué está enfadado todo el mundo?»
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a) Yes b) No