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How did railroads companies get land and money to build the railroads?
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How did the railroad companies get land and money to build the railroads?
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how did railroad companies get land and money to build railroads?
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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 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.
How did the government help the railroads connect the west coast with the rest of the countrty?
They gave them lots of land to build the tracks on. Another answer: railroads were given checker-board parcels of land on which to build their road beds, and afterward the railroads could sell the land for profit to settlers.
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 the government help build the railroads?
They gave them lots of land to build the tracks on. Another answer: railroads were given checker-board parcels of land on which to build their road beds, and afterward the railroads could sell the land for profit to settlers.
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.
How did the government actively help railroads companies?
The government gave railroad companies large pieces of land.
What is the Gaden purchase?
the gadsden purchase is land that the u.s. bought to build railroads
