They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” —Benjamin Franklin “Now what liberty can there be where property is taken without consent?
Our class is doing a History Day project. What gave the Big Four and Washington D.C. the idea for the transcontinental railroad? Why did they think it was important? Why did they decided to build a railroad? How was the Transcontinental Railroad a Turning Point in History? Why was the Transcontinental Railroad built? The Big Four were merchants in Sacramento and knew about 19th century travel — how slow, difficult, and dangerous it was to cross the continent on the overland trails, hardships of life along the trail, to cross Nevada and reach California. They wanted to connect the east and west coasts and to make it easier to trade with the east coast and open up transcontinental trade with Asia. The discovery of gold in 1849 (150 million ounces of gold came from California in the 19th century) also started the gold rush and lead to the building of the transcontinental railroad, which also used hydraulic gold mining construction methods. Like the present day Silicon Valley visionaries,
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