Transcontinental Railroad Symposium : Hilton Obenzinger and C. Matthew Snipp, Impacting Cultures: The Chinese and Native Americans_2019

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad connected the vast expanse of the United States with safe and convenient transport, reducing coast-to-coast travel from six months to just one week. In addition, the railroad provoked social change through migration, economic growth, and the introduction of Chinese labor to the West. One of its consequences was great wealth for the builders of the railroad, among them California Senator Leland Stanford. This fortune, and the land Leland Stanford purchased with it, was the foundation of Stanford University. Join us in examining the legacies of the Transcontinental Railroad and its effect on Stanford University during the 150th anniversary year of the Gold Spike.

Sponsor	Stanford Historical Society
Speaker	Obenzinger, Hilton
Associated with	Snipp, C. Matthew

Subject	Stanford University
Genre	Lectures

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Location	SC0683
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Stanford Historical Society program recordings, 1997-2022

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