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Escaping slaves were often helped by volunteers in an organization known as the Underground Railroad (a metaphorical name; there was no actual railroad involved). Aside from that, escaping slaves just had to go north to get out of the slave holding states, so as navigational problems go it was fairly simple. It is possible to determine which way is north by examining the stars; the Big Dipper (also known during this era as the Drinking Gourd, based on African tradition) is in the north. There is a charming folk song from this era, Follow The Drinking Gourd.
In the US, the dream of a coast to coast railway began early in the 19th century. The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 from Mexico was based on the idea that from New Orleans, the railroad would reach California. As it happened, the US Civil War stopped any progress on the railroad. But in 1869, the so-called Golden Spike was hammered down at Promontory Point, Utah.
The Virginia plan! It said that representation in Congress would be based on population.
Kevin Jordan played in just one game at designated hitter for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1997 and did not start. , equivalent to 0 errors per game (estimate based on total games played in).
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The Central Pacific Railroad.
The Philadelphia Eagles are based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
You will be deported to Canada based on the State Department Law of Historical Railroad Protection.
The Short Line is said to refer to the Shore Fast Line, an interurban electric streetcar. However, there was an actual railroad, the Wildwood and Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad, which merged with the Atlantic City Railroad in 1934. ACRR was a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, which served the New Jersey coast. The other railroads were also based on existing ones in the area of Atlantic City, NJ in the 1930s: The Reading Railroad began as the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in 1833. The Pennsylvania Railroad was founded in 1846. The B&O Railroad was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, now part of CSX. (It did not actually serve Atlantic City.)
The railroad had a huge affect on the settlement of North Dakota the location of most towns in North Dakota was based on where the railroad tracks were going to be laid
The Central Pacific Railroad.
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Senator Stephen A. Douglas was not an abolitionist. He thought that the slavery debate would never be resolved peacefully in its current form. So he proposed that each new state, before it applied for statehood, should be allowed to vote on whether to be slave or free. The result was the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. This was based on his belief in popular sovereignty. Douglas was a nationally known leader who also hoped the transcontinental railroad would start from Chicago, Illinois, his home state.
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The Central Pacific Railroad used Chinese laborers in building the first transcontinental railroad over the mountain.
Pamela Sinkler Todd is a painter based in Philadelphia.