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The transcontinental railroad shortened travel across the continent from an average five to six months to five or six days
Congress gave 100 million acres of land to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads
The construction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads eventually employed 20,000 workers.
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The expansion of the American settlement and economic activities demanded the growth of railroads in many regions of the United States of America. The gold rush to California and the communication problem through acquired a more convenient method to reach across the stretch of the nation. Asa Whitney proposed a transcontinental railroad that would connect the nation from east to west but due to factionalism in Congress, it was ignored. Finally, in 1862 by the Pacific Railroad Act, the idea is finalized.
Friar Juan de Padilla was a chaplain who travelled in an expedition to Oklahoma with Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, governor of New Galicia, a province of New Spain (now Mexico). Padilla was very impressed with the Wichita people, so he returned with two Mexican indians and a Portuguese-born soldier named Andres do Campo, to establish a Catholic mission.
Somewhere in Kansas, the Kaw tribe ambushed them, killing Padilla and holding the other three men captive for almost a year. When they escaped, they travelled across Oklahoma unto the Gulf of Mexico.
It took the men five years to reach the coast, however, it was a much more direct path than the one Coronado followed, between Quivira and the Spanish settlements. The route became adopted by New Spain as the official route to reach those territories. This route became very significant in the development of Oklahoma, and it is now largely followed by Interstate 35.
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De Soto's journey had a significant impact on the Native Americans of North America. He and his men were the first contact the majority of these tribes living in the interior had with Europeans, and they brought more than violence with them.
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