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National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Railroad, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

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A speech and an engraving that illustrate how the railroad helped to unite the country after the Civil War.

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industrialization
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Additional Tags
nation unity, transcontinental railroad, big city politics, civil war memory, gilded age, national humanities center, progressive era, building a transcontinental railroad
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