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The Great 

Railroad Race

 The Transcontinental Railroad
Lincoln (after Library of Congress dag c. 1846-1847)
Abraham Lincoln
(Railroad Lawyer)
Courtesy Library of Congress
 The country is split in two – the east and the west – because it takes months of dangerous travel to get from coast to coast.  The country wants to be united.  The eastern businessmen want to sell their goods to those in the west and buy goods from Asia.  The westerners want to sell their material to those in the east.  In 1862 Abraham Lincoln signs the Pacific Railway Act to build the transcontinental railroad.
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