RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
The Central Pacific company started in California and built it until connected to Boston
|
|
|
The Union Pacific company started in Texas and built it east until it reached Georgia
|
|
|
The Union Pacific company built it from Nebraska going west and the Central Pacific company built it from California going east and they connected in the middle
|
|
|
None of the above
|
Detailed explanation-1: -The transcontinental railroad was built in six years almost entirely by hand. Workers drove spikes into mountains, filled the holes with black powder, and blasted through the rock inch by inch. Handcarts moved the drift from cuts to fills.
Detailed explanation-2: -Connecting the two American coasts made the economic export of Western resources to Eastern markets easier than ever before. The railroad also facilitated westward expansion, escalating conflicts between Native American tribes and settlers who now had easier access to new territories.
Detailed explanation-3: -The rail line, also called the Great Transcontinental Railroad and later the “Overland Route, ” was predominantly built by the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California (CPRR) and Union Pacific (with some contribution by the Western Pacific Railroad Company) over public lands provided by extensive US land grants.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Union Pacific’s 1, 087 miles (1, 749 km) of track started at MP 0.0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the eastern side of the Missouri River.