RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Companies shipped goods from West to East.
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Buffalo were killed.
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Native Americans lost buffalo as their major natural resource.
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Boomtowns created job opportunities.
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Detailed explanation-1: -This had a huge impact on the Plains Indians way of life. The land grants that the railroad companies were given took away land from the Plains Indians. It also greatly disrupted buffalo hunting, as fences around new white settler’s lands and the railroad blocked the buffalo migrations.
Detailed explanation-2: -But there was also a dark side to the historic national project. The railroad was completed by the sweat and muscle of exploited labor, it wiped out populations of buffalo, which had been essential to Indigenous communities, and it extended over land that had been unlawfully seized from tribal nations.
Detailed explanation-3: -It made commerce possible on a vast scale. In addition to transporting western food crops and raw materials to East Coast markets and manufactured goods from East Coast cities to the West Coast, the railroad also facilitated international trade.