They failed because nobody cared about the railroad. The railroad had to be a government project with leases to companies but the government was too much involved in the slavery issue that it didn't have time to deal with railroads. That's why railroads boomed after the civil war ended.
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According to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson´s poem "<em>back" </em>, show us the sad story of a men who has been in a far away land, fighting a war that was not his war, leaving every piece of his soul in any man he killed, until can not recognize himself, so the question would not be <em>"where he´s been and what he´s done" </em>it would be more like asking <em>Will you finally be able to find your soul?.</em>
<span>The land limitations, terrain, the weather, religious dictates which included rigid roles for men, women and children, wealth and education of individuals before leaving, but they were granted land or had been persecuted. There weren't only British Anglicans here, buy Dutch and German. Each group had differing values and mores. So you have to go back to Protestant religious sects of the time such as Calvinism, also method of governing and maintaining order. Punishment was meted out in ways we would not do today. There was lack of knowledge of medicine so disease could wipe out a population, and for the first settlers, they were aided by the indigenous population and purchased land from them. Then, there was the limitation of the length of time between ordering raw materials and receiving them.</span>
The answer to the question above is police social work.
Programs that was originally called Women's Bureaus were the first examples of police social work. The United States Women's Bureau is a government agency within United States Department of Labor.