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The railroad workers finished the railroad tracks with a gold spike.
2 companies worked on the railroad. One went east to west, and the other went west to east.
More than 1,200 people died working on the railroad.

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During the years after the Civil War, more than 10 percent of the troops serving in the West were African American.

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By 1800s there were nearly 50 black towns form Kansas to California

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They told native Americans to go to Kansas to get placed  somewhere else.

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(My camera isn’t working sorry) 1. The railroad workers finished the railroad track with a gold spike. 2. More than 1,200 men died while working on the railroad. 3. 2 companies worked on the railroad. One went east to west while the other went west to east..

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The West offered and opportunity for African Americans to build new lives and have a chance for things to be more fair.

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White settlers

1. Lots of white settlers went to the west to find gold.

2. Another reason to go to the west was there was lots of land and it was cheap.

3. They definitely had to adapt to there surroundings and made tools such as steel plows, barbed wires and even wind mills.