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  the first railroad in the United States was the Baltimore and Ohio railroad that chartered for commercial transport and freight.
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  Native Americans were forced by the United States government to leave their ancestral homelands in the east to the west of the Mississippi river.
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  The Lyceum movement was a series of organizations that sponsored a variety of public education programs and entertainments.
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  This was a financial crisis for the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. during this time profits and prices went down while unemployment went up.
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  Maine was the first state that passed a state-wide law that only alcohol made for industrial or medical use could legally be sold.
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  The Pony express was a mail service that delivered messages, newspapers, and mail using relays of horse mounted riders.