Railroad workers, Library of Congress In the years following the Civil War, railroads were privately ... when President Woodrow Wilson seized American railroads in 1918; the once-private ...

The American Civil War left a bitter legacy ... now linked together by railroads, stormed ahead, the American colossus striding towards the twentieth century. The focus is on Abraham Lincoln ...

After the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the growth of cities and the railroads led to greater contact between blacks and whites in the American South. Southerners felt the need to introduce a ...

Railroad workers, Library of Congress In the years following the Civil War, railroads were privately ... when President Woodrow Wilson seized American railroads in 1918; the once-private ...