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The market revolution was in 1793-1909 in the United States was a drastic change in the manual labor system origination in the South and soon moving to the North later spreading the entire world.


They brought the market revolution about a change in an industry James Marshall first discovered gold, which sent many people out there. Many went during 1849, they are referred to as the '49ers
people from all over came to find gold.

The Oregon trail was the trail that led people to the Willamette valley in Oregon. As Americans moved west the native Americans got pushed further and further west too, until the government gave them their own reservations.


The railroad was started in 1863 and finished in 1869. The union pacific laid 1,087 miles of track. The central pacific laid 690 miles of track. Charles crocker along with mark Hopkins, collis Huntington and Leland stanford heard a presentation given by Theodore, and they all helped invest in the railroad.The four men were also know as the big four. The union pacific laborers were mostly made up of Irish and veterans of both the union and confederate armies.
The Chinese were the ones that immigrated and build the railroad in their little rice hats on the central pacific.
When the railroad reached salt lake, many Mormons helped lay track.

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