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the pacific railroad act helped fund the building of the railroad and it gave the railroad company land.
Transcontinental Railroad Homestead Act
The two major causes were the Homestead Act and the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
In 1862 Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act, which designated the 32nd parallel as the initial transcontinental route and gave huge grants of lands for rights-of-way. The act was an effort to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean and to secure the use of that line by the government.
it provided federal support for the building of the first transcontinental continental railroad and allowed the government to grant public land and issue bonds to fund construction of the railroad
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The Transcontinental Railroad Acts, also known as the Pacific Railroad acts, were acts passed in the early 1860s to encourage the construction of the transcontinental railroad. Construction was incentivized by giving land and bonds to the railroad companies.
Pacific Railway Act.
The transcontinental railroads was financed by the Railway Act of 1863, which financed the construction of the railroad through loans and land grants.
the pacific railroad act helped fund the building of the railroad and it gave the railroad company land.
Telegraph lines were also built for transcontinental communication in the Pacific Railroad Act.
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.
1862 congress passed the pacific railway act
Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with a platform against slavery in the territories but for tariffs a transcontinental railroad and a Homestead Act.
manifest destiny
the act gave the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads bonds and land grants to build the transcontinental railroad
Pacific Railway Act