The American people who lived in cities could easily relocate to the west. This made the 1862 Homestead Act possible. People who lived in crowed urban slums could now travel west by railroad and get farm land. They no longer had to depend on a few wagon trains to travel west. Thus the population of western states grew tremendously.
The Railroad, Lumber, and mining industry boomed because of the railroad industry
the ones in kentuckey
it affected them because it affected their homes and they took their food.
it affected them because it affected their homes and they took their food.
On May 10, 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad CO. and the Union Pacific Railroad CO. met at Promontory Point in UTAH.
The Chinese started building the Transcontinental railroad in 1863 and the Transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869.
The first transcontinental railroad was funded with government money.
why did they build the transcontinental railroad
a railroad that runs across the contient... the transcontinental railroad is a railroad that reaches from North Carolina to California.
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.
Asa Whitney thought of the Transcontinental Railroad after the Lewis and Clark expedition.
The Transcontinental Railroad was finished on May 10, 1869.