"Railroads were born in England, a country with dense populations, short distances between cities, and large financial resources. ... Within twenty years, four rail lines had crossed the Alleghenies to reach their goal on `Western Waters' of the Great Lakes or the tributaries of the Mississippi. ... An international route connected New England and Montreal and another one crossed Southern Ontario between Niagara, New York, and the Detroit River. ... Before the transcontinental railroad, the Eastern railroads had lines running only as far West as Omaha, Nebraska. The Western r...

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Section One In 1492 when Columbus discovered what he thought was a New World; he had found many new items. The items he came across in the search for new land were different kinds of metals, minerals, and agriculture, but this is what was expected, and what was one of the major things he was look...

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One of the symbols that expresses most completely the Plains Indian concept of the relationship between human beings and the world of nature surrounding them is a cross inscribed within a circle. At the center of the circle uniting within a point the four directions of the cross and all the other quaternaries of the universe, is a human person. ...

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