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The first Transcontinental Telegraph line is finished. the Pony express that was used to deliver mail is shut down.
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The United States government agree to help fund a railroad from California to Missouri
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The United States Government offers up free land to farmers who agree to live on the land for five years and make improvement to the land.
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The transcontinental railroad is railroad is complete the union pacific railroad and the central pacific railroad met in promontory, utah and the railroad is completed.
