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American History: Essays: The Iron Horse: North and South

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From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section describes how the debate over where to place the transcontinental railroad line - in the North or in the South - began to take shape. It began with the push to remove native peoples from the lands they had been given, and also with the states' disagreements over the slavery issue.

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