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Question: How did the Transcontinential Railroad help shape America?
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Conjecture: I think the Transcontinential Railroad helped builed America by transporting and trading goods and making money for our government
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James Watt created a steam engine
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George Stephonson made a locomotive (train) for a railroad track.
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Settlers move Westward to the Northern Great Plains or the Oregon Trail.
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Asa Whitney wants a Railway that goes across the contry, but Congress turns down her idea.
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James K. Polk (the new president) decides there should be a Railroad, but doesn't have enough money to support the idea.
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The Gold Rush begins!
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After many not finding gold, the settlers move to different parts of California and Nevada to try to make a more normal lifestyle.
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The chinese need jobs so they go and work for the railroad that has officially been started. Governor Leland Stanford also digs the first mark or the railroad
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The Civil War ends and many soldiers need jobs so they go work for the railroad.
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The railroad began in Sacrementl, California and is now at Omaha, Newbraska.
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Done
the railroad is finally finished and is used for daily things like shipping!