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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<span>European nations conquered other lands to gather natural resources needed to fuel industrialization
This was mostly done in Africa and Asia. The European countries would colonize these two continents and take resources away, anything they could get their hands on. If it wasn't fuel, then it would be things like diamonds or gold that could be traded for money for fuel.</span>
Between 1870 and 1900 Africa territories were under European states control, such as Britain, France, Germany, Portugal among others. Besides, the majority of African territories lost their sovereignty and control of natural resources. Imperial policies which favored resource exploitation and cheap labor weakened local economies. As a result, revolts started to spread by the middle of the 20th century since colonies did not want to accept the Europeans policies which ruled African territories. The African Movements for independence from European rulers took place in the 20th century. It was a slow process; but, by 1977, 54 African countries got rid of European imperial rulers. Consequently, the word they received when the Africans pushed for independence was "Africa".
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Two months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's colonial forces, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaims the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name.
