RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
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Which of the following did NOT occur on the day of completion for the Transcontinental Railroad?
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Americans anxiously awaiting news by telegraph
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Crowds gathered in cities to celebrate the accomplishment
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Canons were fired simultaneously on both coasts
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President Grant had cancelled all schools nationwide
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Within ten years of its completion, the railroad shipped $50 million worth of freight coast to coast every year. Just as it opened the markets of the west coast and Asia to the east, it brought products of eastern industry to the growing populace beyond the Mississippi.
Detailed explanation-2: -Not one of the workers visible in the picture was Chinese. “History-at least photographically-says that the Chinese were not present, ” the late photographer Corky Lee told NPR in 2014. That erasure would continue at the transcontinental railroad’s centennial in 1969.
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