Angel Dominguez

Abraham Lincoln

California Gold Rush

Railroad companys had began to settle their tracks to the west after the subsity from the goverment had gave them land to build on.

Before Abraham Lincoln had passed away. After the civil war had just ended. Abraham had an idea to conect the east to the west, and this is how the idea of the railroads became upon.

Transcontental Railroad

Danger!Railroad!

Building of the Transcontental Railroad

Then once the discovery of gold in California american settlers had a desire to get rich, and make new lives in the west.