RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
HOMESTEAD ACT
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Scheels
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Northern Pacific Railroad
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Sugar cane farms
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Sky Zone
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Detailed explanation-1: -Northern Pacific Railway Company, one of the northern transcontinental railroads of the United States, operating between St. Paul, Minn., and Seattle, Wash., and merged into the Burlington Northern in 1970.
Detailed explanation-2: -This network merged with another historic railroad, and a considerable portion of the Great Northern now operates as the BNSF Railway.
Detailed explanation-3: -On July 2, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress creating the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The railroad was chartered to build from Lake Superior to Puget Sound. To finance the railroad, it was granted land rights along the proposed route of nearly 2000 miles.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1862 Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Acts which designated the 32nd parallel as the initial transcontinental route and gave huge grants of lands for rights-of-way. The legislation authorized two railroad companies, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, to construct the lines.