Railroads — Transcript

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1. 0:01okay so here we go video lecture number
2. 0:05two the railroads I've been working on
3. 0:08the railroad all the live long day
4. 0:09actually have it up and sitting the
5. 0:11house right here folding laundry it's
6. 0:15very upsetting and so basically the
7. 0:17railroad transformed America after the
8. 0:19Civil War I mean more than anything else
9. 0:20the railroad transformed the country and
10. 0:23it totally makes sense it's just like
11. 0:24the car the automobile transformed the
12. 0:25country 1920s to the 1950s I mean even
13. 0:28until the day how important the car is
14. 0:30and so the railroads was was really
15. 0:34really important for so many reasons I
16. 0:35mean the railroads really knit the
17. 0:36country together and all of a sudden you
18. 0:38had the ability to move around and to
19. 0:39move your goods around the country
20. 0:41because of the railroads the railroads
21. 0:43are going to spur economic development
22. 0:44in fact the railroads are the
23. 0:46cornerstone of the Second Industrial
24. 0:48Revolution the Second Industrial
25. 0:50Revolution you can remember it with an
26. 0:52acronym rose like rose like that song
27. 0:55rose has this dawn right that's which is
28. 0:59a great song by I can't remember who
29. 1:01sings a song I'm thinking poison but
30. 1:03that's not right that's not a Guns
31. 1:05N'Roses anyway so basically every risk
32. 1:08for rose uh the R stands for railroad
33. 1:12right railroad the oh is oil this is the
34. 1:17time of Rockefeller this is after the
35. 1:18Civil War Rockefeller and Standard Oil
36. 1:20the S stands for steel Carnegie steel
37. 1:25and the e stands for electricity really
38. 1:27you could even think about Edison and
39. 1:29Tesla and electricity and so basically
40. 1:31those four things more than anything
41. 1:33else really create this second to this
42. 1:35revolution and the most important is a
43. 1:37railroad the railroad will employ more
44. 1:39people
45. 1:39the first major strike in the country
46. 1:42when I say major strike there were of
47. 1:43course strikes before this with a major
48. 1:45kind of national first national strike
49. 1:47is a railroad strike the railroads
50. 1:52really knit the country together
51. 1:54the railroads displaced the Native
52. 1:55Americans they understood what was
53. 1:57happening they totally understood the
54. 1:58population was moving out in the great
55. 2:00plains the railroads by 1862 one of the
56. 2:04things that Lincoln does as President
57. 2:06Abraham Lincoln who I love very much one
58. 2:08of the things that Abraham Lincoln does
59. 2:09along with being the great Emancipator
60. 2:11and all the other things he does
61. 2:13Lincoln also as a Whig tries to
62. 2:16basically bring the country economically
63. 2:17kinda more together that was kind of a
64. 2:20Whig dream and so they're going to pass
65. 2:22in 1862 the the National Railroad Act I
66. 2:25think it's what it's called but anyway
67. 2:26they're going to create that the
68. 2:27foundation for the for the the Pacific
69. 2:30Railroad act I'm sorry the Pacific
70. 2:31Railroad act and they're going to create
71. 2:32the foundation for the for the trans got
72. 2:34in a railroad and that thing is going to
73. 2:35be done in seven years and that is going
74. 2:37to be the beginning of railroads coming
75. 2:40out across the country rather than
76. 2:41railroad just railroads or everything
77. 2:43right once the railroads start going to
78. 2:45the plains all of a sudden farmers have
79. 2:47access to goods now again it's not like
80. 2:49Amazon
81. 2:50I love Amazon in fact I have the mark of
82. 2:53Amazon one Mike I shouldn't joke about
83. 2:55that please I'm like don't I'm not sorry
84. 2:57I didn't mean to joke about that I'm
85. 2:59Debra but Amazon is amazing right Amazon
86. 3:01is really amazing
87. 3:02we have Amazon Prime by the way I'm not
88. 3:05a spokesman for Amazon at this time
89. 3:08although I do have Alexa in my kitchen
90. 3:10in fact yeah so basically so Amazon is
91. 3:14amazing because I can order something
92. 3:16and it's here in two days tomorrow I'm
93. 3:18expecting two books and I'm so excited
94. 3:20that's what the railroad does for
95. 3:22farmers thanks to a mellower catalog
96. 3:25called sears and roebuck starts that
97. 3:27with wood like clocks and it turns into
98. 3:30this mass ability to ship things I
99. 3:33remember growing up in the 1970s 1980s
100. 3:35mom we would come home and loved it I
101. 3:37lived a little chunk of walls Texas and
102. 3:39we would come home and we would get this
103. 3:40we would get the Sears Roebuck catalog I
104. 3:42feel like is I'm like moving I'm moving
105. 3:44the screen is like sorry but it's like a
106. 3:46roller coaster and I would go through
107. 3:49there and I would circle all the things
108. 3:51I wanted out of the Sears & Roebuck
109. 3:52catalog and my mom would say I can't get
110. 3:54that sorry son
111. 3:56we're not getting man and Crick but
112. 3:58again always and you could order things
113. 4:00on in these farms in the Midwest through
114. 4:03the railroad right and they would you
115. 4:05can order houses complete houses my
116. 4:08grandfather
117. 4:08Missy's wife actually mine mine I'm
118. 4:11sorry my father-in-law Missy's Missy's
119. 4:13husband this is Tara is an on
120. 4:16instruction kind of guy and in fact we
121. 4:18have a symbol different things didn't
122. 4:20work out because he immediately throws
123. 4:21the instructions away I would never let
124. 4:23him get around a Sears & Roebuck house
125. 4:26that cannot because you need those
126. 4:28so you can you can build a house all of
127. 4:30a sudden the railroad depots are really
128. 4:31important because next the railroads
129. 4:34runs the telegraph so not only the
130. 4:36railroads bring goods the road brings
131. 4:37information isn't that what we all want
132. 4:39today we want information right we want
133. 4:41information at our fingertips like I was
134. 4:44I'm frustrated when I don't know what's
135. 4:47going to happen immediately right I mean
136. 4:49so so the railroad provides that the
137. 4:52railroad creates a continental market
138. 4:55prices of goods drop you have an
139. 4:58industrial revolution that's created
140. 5:00because all of a sudden Goods commercial
141. 5:02Goods can go to people who never had
142. 5:04access to commercial goods before so
143. 5:06also you're going to have production
144. 5:07increasing with certain material you're
145. 5:10going to have land values going up
146. 5:11you're gonna have property taxes
147. 5:12increasing the railroad is going to the
148. 5:15time zones are going to be created
149. 5:16because the railroad right I mean the
150. 5:18railroad really said that there had to
151. 5:21be a way of efficiently recording time
152. 5:24because a railroads obviously not like a
153. 5:26ship right a ship
154. 5:27now that ships going in either tomorrow
155. 5:29or Friday I don't know when that ships
156. 5:31are coming but a railroad you need that
157. 5:33railroad Valentine right I mean you you
158. 5:36want to know when the railroads coming
159. 5:37in so basically the railroad is going to
160. 5:39advocate for time sense at fit first or
161. 5:42100 time zones they get it down to for
162. 5:45the time zones we have today and then
163. 5:47some he kind of thing but it's - and the
164. 5:49railroad changes the way we think about
165. 5:51time made time Americans have always
166. 5:54been kind of a set obsessed with time
167. 5:56but the railroad makes us more obsessed
168. 5:59that the need for efficiency with time
169. 6:02it was even a paradigm shift in the
170. 6:041880s 1890s the way that people thought
171. 6:07about the importance of time right and
172. 6:10again we're all it's kind of tied to
173. 6:11time now but through the railroad really
174. 6:14kind of led to that the rower was
175. 6:16tremendously important it was over built
176. 6:19he's gonna it's going to cause against
177. 6:21strikes economic messes railroads
178. 6:24building next to each other
179. 6:26the railroads are going to give
180. 6:28politicians and journalists secret
181. 6:29rights in fact the first law federal law
182. 6:34that really interferes with business is
183. 6:36called the Interstate Commerce Act and
184. 6:37it was an attempt was kind of a half
185. 6:40heart
186. 6:40attempt to try to regulate some of the
187. 6:43things that railroad rosin
188. 6:44so the railroads were immensely
189. 6:47important in in allowing America to
190. 6:51develop industrially in the 1870s 1880s
191. 6:561890s even though it started 1840s 1850s
192. 6:59that's when this development really
193. 7:01really begin to explode so their system
194. 7:04the railroads thanks