Financing the Transcontinental Railroad<span>. The first </span>transcontinental railroad<span>, built between 1864 and 1869, was the greatest construction project of its era. It involved building a line from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, across a vast, largely unmapped territory.</span>
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The Haitian Revolution (1791 – 1804) The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony.
The Freedman's Bureau was created to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War. Giving them education and medical help was very important in helping them recover from the revolution and helped the freedmen to be able to live on their own.
Both Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) and the National Association for the Advance of Colored People (NAACP) had equality between blacks and whites as their primary goal.
Their methods were different, though. Garvey believed in "equal but separated" and led a campaign for black people to return to Africa. He stood for the establishment of a black nation on the west coast of Africa for African Americans.
The NAACP on its turn was created to fight for equality and for democratic inclusion of African Americans. NAACP fights through the judicial system, peaceful protests, and lobbying. It didn't share Garvey's defense of separatism and it was an important factor in the fight against segregation.
