RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The group who owned the Central Pacific R.R.
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The four men who built the railroad.
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Farmers who built canals to irrigate their crops.
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A group of herbalists who developed healing medicines.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Central Pacific Railroad Company was established in 1861. It was financed by the “Big Four, ” Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford and by land grants, subsidies and loans from federal, state and local government resources.
Detailed explanation-2: -From the beginning, then, the building of the transcontinental railroad was set up in terms of a competition between the two companies. In the West, the Central Pacific would be dominated by the “Big Four”–Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington and Mark Hopkins.
Detailed explanation-3: -Samuel Montague (1830-1883): Chief Engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad from 1863 until his death. Montague began work for the Central Pacific in 1862 and became Chief Engineer following the death of Theodore Judah.
Detailed explanation-4: -They are the four largest accounting firms by revenue. They are Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG), read more about each below.