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Building a Class Lesson

Building a Class Lesson. Using documents and photos to tell a focused story. The Northern Pacific Railroad (NPR) discussed its plans for building a line into Dakota Territory, in its 1864 Company Charter. The railroad comes to the northland. Pre-1870, reliance on water. The RR worker’s life.

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Building a Class Lesson

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  1. Building a Class Lesson Using documents and photos to tell a focused story

  2. The Northern Pacific Railroad (NPR) discussed its plans for building a line into Dakota Territory, in its 1864 Company Charter. The railroad comes to the northland

  3. Pre-1870, reliance on water

  4. The RR worker’s life

  5. Cutting edge technology

  6. The NPR route

  7. NPR obtained 1,626,178 & 48/100th acres of land from 1871-72, in Minnesota-Dakota Territory Land received

  8. Year-round civilization

  9. Regulating farms and towns

  10. In its report on the value of lands that the Northern Pacific received from the Federal government, the company estimated the value per acre of land, based on distance from a rail station. The report commented that actual prices would be determined “entirely by the Land Committee” of the NPR. The rails and the land

  11. An empire based on grain

  12. An 1894 lawsuit filed by a rural bank against the Northern Pacific yielded some accurate information regarding shipping costs that were charged by the railroad. By the 1890s farmers wanted railroads regulated by government action. Shipping costs

  13. The RR and small town culture

  14. Rail technology

  15. The Northern Pacific’s property, 1900

  16. Reaction to criticism, 1900

  17. In 1912, the NPR’s president told an audience in St. Paul that its profits from shipping rates and passenger tickets were far less than critics charged, saying the company’s $3.5 million earnings in 1911 was “less than 1.5% return to the stockholders.” Profits from shipping

  18. As history

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