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Mining & Railroads
1. Recognize the significance of the Transcontinental Railroad, joined at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869.
2. The mining and railroading industries transformed Utah from an agricultural to a more industrialized economy.
3. Comprehend how railroads and mining brought change to Utah--a broader economy, greater ethnic and cultural diversity of people, technological innovations.
4. Realize the importance of railroad spur lines from the main transcontinental line to other geographical locations, and the railroad companies created.
5. Understand the role of the military and Colonel Edward Patrick Connor to mining in Utah; and the establishment of Camp Douglas in 1862.
6. Understand that the first mining claim in Utah occurred in 1863 with the establishment of the West Mountain Quartz Mining District (Bingham Canyon). 7. Recognize the significance of railroading and mining as tandem industries--depending upon and enhancing the other. The railroad effectively launched commercial mining activity in Utah.
8. Towns grew and mining districts developed in the 1870s around large-scale mining efforts. Railroads built to service these areas. These districts included Park City, Tintic, Ophir, Mercur, Rush Valley, and Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons.
9. Realize that Utah mining stocks exchanged on international markets. The British owned mines in Alta and Tintic in the 1870s. 10. Understand the difference between hard rock and coal mining--precious metals and coal. 11. The coal industry, beginning in the 1880s, created a demand for unskilled labor, as did metal mining in the 1870s.
12. Comprehend how the mining industry, with the railroads, brought in Welsh and Cornish miners, southern and eastern Europeans, Asians, African Americans, and Mexicans as needed labor.
13. Understand the factors that influenced the growth of industries like mining--geographic, economic, social, and political.
14. Differentiate the roles of workers and owners/managers in these industries.
15. Trace the development of social and political movements as outgrowths of these industries--child labor, labor unions, etc.
16. Who were the leaders of these social and political movements, and why were they the leaders?
17. Recognize that mining and railroading changed the Utah landscape.
18. Grasp the importance of these industries with the peopling of Utah.
19. Recognize the role of Gilsonite in Utah's mining history.
20. Outline the significance of uranium mining in Utah.
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