The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
Most current communist groups descended from the Maoist ideological tradition still adopt the description of both China and the Soviet Union as being state capitalist from a certain point in their history onwards—most commonly, the Soviet Union from 1956 to its collapse in 1991 and China from 1976 to the present.
he was appointed to lead an alternative expendition through the American west, exploring areas acquired in the Louisiana purchase
Jackson urged Indians to assimilate and obey state laws. further, he believed that he could only accommodate the desire for Indian self rule in federal territories,which required resettlement west of the Mississippi River on federal lands
the Indian removal act was signed into law by president Andrew Jackson on May 28,1830, authorizing the president to great lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
Singleton,a former slave from Tennessee who had escaped to the north, returned to Tennessee after the civil war with the long dream of helping his fellow former slaves to improve their lives. Singleton encouraged his people to move to Kansas where they would be able to purchase land and establish a better life
