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How did railroad companies raise most of the money they needed to build railroads from?
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Sold bonds to "the public".
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How did railroad companies raise most of the money they needed to build their railroads?
Selling government land grants
How did the railroad companies get land and money to build the railroads?
what is a fault
how did railroad companies get land and money to build railroads?
what is a fault
How did the railroads raise most of the money they needed to build their railroad?
Selling government land grants
Why did the federal government provide land grants to companies to build railroads west?
It was because they needed railroads so they could of transport stuff that they needed from the west.
The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 granted land to railroad companies to build the transcontinental railroad. What was the effect of the railroads selling this land?
There was an increase in population in the American interior
The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 granted land to railroad companies to build the transcontinental railroad What was the effect of the railroads selling this land?
There was an increase in population in the American interior
How did railroads companies get land and money to build the railroads?
what is a fault
In the second half of the 1800s what did the federal government encourage in the building of transcontinental railroads?
Railroad Builders received loans and grants from the federal government.
What part the big four play in the building of the transcontinental railroads?
why did they build the transcontinental railroad
Why did people particularly farmers demand regualtion of the railroads the late 19th century?
Because the farmers felt that they were being cheated by the railroad owners. The owners were allowed to choose the price of the shipping and also whether the crop would be shipped at all. The farmers felt that this was unfair and the only way to resolve it was to have the government own the railroads
What two companies build the first transcontinental railroad?
the central and pacific railroad compnaies.
