A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . cided that she should pay this country fifteenmillion five hundred thousand dollars for the damage sus-tained. This is known as the Geneva award. Other Arbitrations.âOther questions were settled byarbitration. In 1872 the Emperor of Germany decided adispute about the Northwest boundary of the United States,and in 1877 aboard of arbitration settled certain disputesbetween the American and Canadian fishermen. The latterdecision went against the United States, which was orderedto pay five million five hundred thousand do
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . cided that she should pay this country fifteenmillion five hundred thousand dollars for the damage sus-tained. This is known as the Geneva award. Other Arbitrations.âOther questions were settled byarbitration. In 1872 the Emperor of Germany decided adispute about the Northwest boundary of the United States,and in 1877 aboard of arbitration settled certain disputesbetween the American and Canadian fishermen. The latterdecision went against the United States, which was orderedto pay five million five hundred thousand dollars to GreatBritain. These settlements by arbitration are of great im-portance. Disputes no greater than those thus acted uponin former times often led to war. 420 DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW NATION. Eailroad Extension.âThe conclusion of the war wasfollowed by an era of rapid railroad construction, andduring the period of Grants first term thousands of milesof railroad were built. Of these enterprises much the mostimportant was the railroad to the Pacific, which was com-. Meeting of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads. pleted May 10, 1869. This great work, which was aided byliberal grants from Congress, completed a continuous lineof rail from New York to San Francisco, a distance of overthree thousand three hundred miles.^ Since then several ^ This railroad was begun during the Civil War. It consisted oftwo separate roads, which met at Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific,which was built westward one thousand and twenty-nine miles fromOmaha, and the Central Pacific, which extended eastward eight hun-dred and seventy-eight miles from San Francisco. The last spike,connecting these roads, was driven at Ogden, May 10, 1869. Thespike was connected with telegraph wires, and each blow on it was GRANTS ADMINISTRATION. 421 other railroads have been built across the continent, and atraveller can go from the Atlantic to the Pacific to-day inless time than it took to go from Boston to Washing
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