RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Theodore Judah
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Mark Hopkins
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Collis P. Huntington
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Charles Crocker
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Detailed explanation-1: -Judah was a brilliant civil engineer who dreamed of building a transcontinental railroad. He worked tirelessly surveying a route for a railroad to connect California to the rest of the country.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the early and most prominent people making the case for a transcontinental railroad was Asa Whitney. In 1849 he published his ideas on the idea of a railroad that began in Chicago and went to California. There were many others who also joined the chorus.
Detailed explanation-3: -Judah and his wife then left for the east, where he hoped to raise enough funds to buy the Central Pacific back from his former partners. On the trip across the Isthmus of Panama, he contracted yellow fever, and died in New York City on November 2, 1863.