RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Exoduster
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Railsplitter
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Golden Spike
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Nitroglycerin
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Detailed explanation-1: -1869: Four years after the Civil War, the United States is joined from coast to coast by a transcontinental railroad, as a ceremonial final spike is driven at Promontory Summit, Utah.
Detailed explanation-2: -Following a brief time on display, the Golden Spike was returned to David Hewes. In 1892, Hewes donated his extensive rare art collection, including the Golden Spike, to the museum of newly built Leland Stanford Junior University in Palo Alto, California.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is located in Palo Alto, California. Leland Stanford’s brother-in-law, David Hewes, had the spike commissioned for the Last Spike ceremony. Since it was privately owned it went back to California to David Hewes. Hewes donated the spike to Stanford University art museum in 1892.
Detailed explanation-4: -On May 10, 1869, the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history.