Dickinson believed that Congress should complete the Articles of Confederation and secure a foreign alliance before issuing a declaration.
On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, workers drove a spike that linked two rail lines, one snaking from the East, the other from California, completing America's first transcontinental railroad. This event helped launch an era of economic development that would transform a Jeffersonian society of yeoman farmers into an industrial powerhouse.
A, economy boomed during WWII but gas and food were rationed for soldiers
