A pre-dreadnought <span>Indiana-class</span> battleship, USS Oregon was well known battle ship of the United States. Its remarkable voyage from San Francisco to Jupiter Inlet that lasted 66 days and spanned 14,000 nautical miles made this ship known to the wider public and also demonstrated the need for a new water route which led to the creation of the Panama Canal.
In the 1840s the main argument and Congress over the transcontinental railroad concerned the impact it would have on individual towns, since the railroad caused a major disturbance in many of the towns it passed through.
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That they stayed backward, and poorer than they needed be, and were thus vulnerable to the West's gunboat diplomacy tactics.
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