<span>Martin Luther King Jr. is shot to death at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. A single shot fired by James Earl Ray from over 200 feet away at a nearby motel struck King in the neck. He died an hour later at St. Joseph's Hospital.</span>
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Answer is B, the railroad system going through the cities.
Westward expansion began with the Louisiana Purchase, (it was a movement of settlers into the American West.)
