On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, workers drove a spike that linked two rail lines, one snaking from the East, the other from California, completing America's first transcontinental railroad. This event helped launch an era of economic development that would transform a Jeffersonian society of yeoman farmers into an industrial powerhouse.
True, <span>blasphemy was punishable by death.</span>
<span>January 29, 1892. Headquarters Atlanta, GA, founder Asa Griggs Candler. </span>
One importnat driver of European exploration of the 1400s and the 1500s
was the fact that they sought new trade routes to Eeastern Asia - B.
The
reason why they did that was because the previous trading routes that
were being used were being attacked by bandits and were no longer safe.
For that reason, new routes had to be found.
