WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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A new company that cleans trains
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My brothers toy railroad pieces
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There is no such thing
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A railroad that goes across the continent
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Detailed explanation-1: -Transcontinental railways are railroads that run across continents. The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR) in Russia is the world’s longest railway system. A transcontinental railroad is a rail track that runs across a continental landmass and connects to different oceans or continental borders at different points.
Detailed explanation-2: -(4) Transcontinental railroad The term “Transcontinental Railroad” means the approximately 1, 912-mile continuous railroad constructed between 1863 and 1869 extending from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Francisco, California.
Detailed explanation-3: -A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage, that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders.
Detailed explanation-4: -A transcontinental railroad, Lincoln hoped, would bring the entire nation closer together – would make Americans across the continent feel like one people.