..::CHAPTER 9 PART ONE::..
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- 1871
- Year NP reaches Moorhead
- Fertile Belt
- Cooke advertised the land which the NP would build the greatest land in the world he called it the?
- Fredrick Billings
- 1875 he became president of the No Pacific
- Issac Stevens
- Surveyed from Ft. Union to pacific ocean he reported that a northern rout was possible
- Land
- 2.
- 1873
- Year NP reaches Bismark
- Middle
- Which rout was decided to be taken to get to California middle, Southern, or Northern
- 1876
- Year NP makes a profit after depression
- Northern Pacific
- 1. 3 Railroads Dominated N.D.
- Jay Cooke
- Philadelphia businessman he had sold bonds for the US gov during the Civil War
- Panic of `73
- Jay Cooke & Co. went Broke which caused this?
- Northern Pacific
- Had to be 2000 mi of track from Duluth,Mn to Tacoma, Washington started buildin from 1870-1873
- Abraham Lincoln
- Signed a bill into law It granted a charter (license to operate) to the NO. Pacific Railroad Co.
- Great American Desert
- What Jay Cooke Called the Fertile Land The people called the
- 1870-1900
- Great Railroad building years
- Soo line
- 3.
- Money
- 1. 2 things needed to get a railroad started
- Union Pacific
- Start in Omaha, NE & build West
- Central Pacific
- build from California & head East
- Great Northern
- 2.
- Union Pacific
- 2.
- Northern California
- Gold Discovered in
- Central Pacific
- 1. 2 railroads were given land grants to build the lines