RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Cheyenne.
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San Francisco.
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New York.
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Omaha.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Irish immigrants, freed slaves and Mormons also worked on the transcontinental railroad. “Snow fell so deeply that they had to build roofs over 37 miles of track so supply trains could make it through. The conditions were merciless, dangerous and harsh.”
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Pacific Railroad Act stipulated that the Central Pacific Railroad Company would start building in Sacramento and continue east across the Sierra Nevada, while a second company, the Union Pacific Railroad, would build westward from the Missouri River, near the Iowa-Nebraska border.