1 Jan 1869 Jahr - The First Transcontinental Railroad 1869

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Impacts:
-Encouraged further settlement as it provided a safe, cheaper, efficient method of travel west.
-Encouraged development of towns along the railroads.
-Made the west less isolated.
-Helped facilitate trade between the east and west.
-Disrupted Indian hunting and the buffalo migration.
-Increased tensions between the Indians and settlers.
-Land was taken from Indian Territories.
-Railraod workers began hunting buffalo for sport.

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