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What effect did the Transcontinental Railroad have on America's western frontier in the Late Nineteenth century?

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For others, however, the Transcontinental Railroad undermined the sovereignty of Native nations and threatened to destroy Indigenous communities and their cultures as the railroad expanded into territories inhabited by Native Americans.

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