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How did the transcontinental railroad affect communication?

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It was Abraham Lincoln who signed the bill authorizing the transcontinental railroad, in no small part from a need to create greater communication and union with the new states of California (1850), Oregon (1859) and Nevada (soon to come in 1864).

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