What happened in the 1850s?
🛤️ The Establishment of the First Transcontinental Railroad Plans (1850s): Uniting America
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Transcontinental Railroad - Construction, Competition & Impact (history.com)
Railroads in the Late 19th Century - Library of Congress (loc.gov)
The Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 (loc.gov)
Transcontinental railroad completed, unifying United States | HISTORY (history.com)
First transcontinental railroad - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
The Transcontinental Railroad - Linda Hall Library (lindahall.org)
The Railroad That Changed America - Junior Scholastic (scholastic.com)
The Transcontinental Railroad | American Battlefield Trust (battlefields.org)
Transcontinental Railroad, United States | - UMass Boston Blogs (umb.edu)
Gilded Age - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)