A history of the United States for Catholic schools . ted to theEmperor of Germany. The Geneva Arbitration Commission met, as designated(1872), and decided on the Geneva Award, that is, thatGreat Britain pay the United States for damage done ourcommerce during the Civil War the sum of fifteen million fivehundred thousand dollars in gold. Subsequently, an arbitration committee met at Halifax, NovaScotia, and decided that the United States pay five million fivehundred thousand dollars for the use of the Canadian shoresfor drying and curing fish, for a period of twelve years. In the question of o
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . ted to theEmperor of Germany. The Geneva Arbitration Commission met, as designated(1872), and decided on the Geneva Award, that is, thatGreat Britain pay the United States for damage done ourcommerce during the Civil War the sum of fifteen million fivehundred thousand dollars in gold. Subsequently, an arbitration committee met at Halifax, NovaScotia, and decided that the United States pay five million fivehundred thousand dollars for the use of the Canadian shoresfor drying and curing fish, for a period of twelve years. In the question of our northwest boundary the German ULYSSES S. grants ADMINISTRATION 481 Emperor decided in favor of tlie United States, and assignedto the United States the important archipelago of islands lyingbetween the continent and the island of Vancouver, The Washington Treaty was a turning point in the diplo-matic history of the world, inasmuch as it marked the begin-ning of the practice of settling differences between nations byarbitration rather than by JOINING THE TWO PACIITC RAILROADS 606. The First Transcontinental Railroad. The Civil Warhad shown the necessity of some better means of communica-tion between the East and tlie West than the Oregon andSanta Fe trails. Two companies were soon formed for tliepurpose of constructing a transcontinental railroad—theUnion Pacific company, which worked from Omaha westward,and the Central Pacific, which worked from San Franciscoeastward. The government gave to the companies financial 482 A HT8T0RY OP TTTE ITNTTED STATES assistance and vast tracts of land along the route. The work-men from both directions finally met at Ogden, Utah (1869),where the last spike, a golden one, was driven with greatceremony, and the Union Pacific Railroad, the first commerciallink between the Atlantic and Pacific, was completed. The construction of this railroad over a line of eighteenhundred miles was a gigantic undertaking. Across valleys,over, around, and
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