8.H.3.2 Explain how changes brought about by technology and other innovations affected individuals and groups in North Carolina and the United States

8.C&G.1.4 Analyze access to democratic rights and freedoms among various groups in North Carolina and the United States.

8.G.1.1 Explain how location and place have presented opportunities and challenges for the movement of people, goods, and ideas in North Carolina and the United States.

8.E.1.1 Explain how conflict, cooperation, and competition influenced periods of economic growth and decline

8.C.1.3 Summarize the contributions of particular groups to the development of North Carolina and the United States

As Reconstruction is going on in the South, many other things are happening in the West. With the conclusion of the Civil War Rail Roads are more important than ever. The desire to shorten travel time from coast to coast means the construction of a Trans-Continent Rail Road. Labor will be needed and the companies will prefer this labor to be cheap and replaceable. This coincides with Immigration from China & Ireland. To gain the land for the rail road we will revisit Native Americans with empty promises & Broken Treaties, as we force them once more off lands promised.

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