Americans had more leisure time in the 1950s because many Americans were working shorter hours during the work week. There was also more vacation time from jobs. <span>Another reason Americans had more leisure time during the 1950s is because there was new time saving technology, such as the washing machine.</span>
Theodore Judah was the person who convinced the railroad officials that it was possible to build a railroad line across line across the Sierra Nevada Mountains.He is also considered as the "Father of first Transcontinental Railroads.Judah had many opportunities that the people prior to him did not have.
An American solider and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.