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THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.; PROVISIONS OF THE BILL BEFORE THE SENATE--FAIR PROSPECTS FOR ITS PASSAGE--ALL INTERESTED SATISFIED.
WASHINGTON, April 22,--The bill to extend the time for the construction and completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which came up in the Senate to-day, appears to be satisfactory to all the ...
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Workers of the Central and Union Pacific Railroad
Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...
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Underground Railroad
In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret ... people fled to Canada from northern American cities after an 1850s law gave slave owners the ...