railroad!

= **//__RAILROAD INDUSTRIES!__//** =

**//__what it effected!__//**
===The economy of the West was based largely on mining and agriculture. Both of these industries needed a way to get their products back to the East, where the vast majority of Americans lived. If it had not been for the railroads, miners and farmers/ranchers would not have been able to get their products to market. A perfect example of this would be the famous cattle drives of the Old West. Cattle were driven from ranches to the railheads so they could be shipped back to the East.===

**__why it effected!__**
===the rail road effected the United States because, it made transportation from the west to the east and the east to the west. It made goods and other resources easier to be traded, also this was just the best way for anything to be done.===

__//**how it effected!**//__
===Before the spread of rail transport, nearly all heavy good had to be transported by boats and ships, which are much slower than rail. Moreover, railways were built to places not on waterways.so there for this made the railroad the top mover ,trader, more evolution machine.===

**//MAJOR STRIKES!//**
===:IN 1877 the railroad industries cut back 10% so therefor many workers went on a strike moving into the Pennsylvania region, where railroad properties were destroyed. military troops had to take control of this mass violence of pedestrians.===

**WORKING CONDITIONS!**
===:the working conditions of the workers of the railroad is that they had poor health, they was low on food and water, many workers dies form dehydration, and starvation, a lot of workers just broke down and died from working to much or to hard to where they could not go anymore. ===

**//__ELKINS ACT!__//**
===With the 1903 act Congress thought to bring the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission to set max railroad freight rates. The act required railroads to hold to their rates and more rate cutting and rebates. Railroads favored the act, because it prevented loss of revenue. The Elkins Act also got rid of some of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 by providing more specific methods of procedure and penalties for nonobservance of its provisions.===