2006-07-23 01:14:33 · 4 answers · asked by Alma Madero 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
They told her she was fat (JK).
It made a lot of workers’ lives stark and harsh. The Central Pacific Railroad employed thousands of Chinese immigrants, and the Union Pacific hired Irish immigrants and desperate, out-of-work Civil War veterans to lay track across treacherous terrain. Accidents and pneumonia and other diseases impaired and killed thousands of men each year. In 1888, when the first railroad statistics were published, the casualties totaled more than 2,000 employees killed and 20,000 injured.
2006-07-23 01:16:34 · answer #1 · answered by its just me!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your other reply is on the nose.
Unions finally resolved most of those concerns.
However, Unions eventually created the "near demise" of the railroads by unreasonable demands.
I could get pummeled for that statement, but in light of our transportation woes today, I think that the "lack" of a complete railroad system is hurting this nation in the worst way.
2006-07-23 01:34:18 · answer #2 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deforestation, death of thousands of buffalos/bison from sport hunting
2006-07-23 09:54:07 · answer #3 · answered by Hidden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think they did --- but did you know, the invention of the rail road created the time zones.......
2006-07-23 16:30:18 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋