How Did the Transcontinental Railroad Impact Life for Native Americans?

AIM:  How did the Transcontinental Railroad impact life for Native Americans?

The first transcontinental railroad in the United States is the name of a railway line through the United States that joined the city of Omaha (Nebraska) with Sacramento in the 1860s, linking the railway network of the Eastern United States with California, on the Pacific coast. It ended with the famous Golden Spike ceremony (Golden Spike) held on May 10, 1869 in Promontory (Utah), creating a network of mechanized transportation nationwide that revolutionized the population and economy of the West estadounidense.1 This network made the famous wagon trains (wagon trains, in English) the so-called old west past decades they became obsolete, changing them by a modern transport system.

Authorized by the law of the Pacific Railway in 1862 and strongly supported by the federal government, was the culmination of a movement over decades to build this line and was one of the greatest achievements of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, completed four years after his death. Railway construction required enormous feats of engineering and work to cross plains and high mountains by railroad companies Union Pacific and Central Pacific, the two companies that built the line to the west and east respectively.

Railroad construction was motivated in part to interconnect the Union during the American Civil War. This greatly accelerated the population Westerns by white settlers, while contributed to the decline of the Indians in these regions.

In 1879, the Supreme Court of the United States formally established, in its decision on the case against Union Pacific Railroad United States, on November 6, 1869 as the official date of completion of the transcontinental railroad.

This railroad was considered the greatest American technological feat of the nineteenth century. It served as a vital link to industry, trade and travel, linking the East and West of the late nineteenth century United States halves. The transcontinental railroad ended quickly with romantic lines diligence, much slower and risky, which had preceded it. The subsequent advance called "manifest destiny" and the proliferation of "Iron Horse" through the lands of indigenous natives greatly accelerated the fall of the great Indian culture of the Great Plains.