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What was the name of the western portion of the transcontinental railroad?
Central Pacific Railroad.
How did the transcontinental railroad get its name?
I was named for connecting East to West America. It gave access from coast to coast of the continent. That is how it got its name, the Transcontinental Railroad.
When did the Chinese build the railroad?
The Chinese started building the Transcontinental railroad in 1863 and the Transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869.
Which statement is falseThe first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869?
The first transcontinental railroad was funded with government money.
What part the ''big four'' play in the building of the transcontinental railroad?
why did they build the transcontinental railroad
What is the transcontinental railroad-?
a railroad that runs across the contient... the transcontinental railroad is a railroad that reaches from North Carolina to California.
What was the transcontinental railroad act?
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.
What is the name of the two railroads lines that constructed the first transcontinental railroad?
It was in the underground railroad...wait that was for the nigs...sorry
Who thought of the transcontinental railroad?
Asa Whitney thought of the Transcontinental Railroad after the Lewis and Clark expedition.
The transcontinental railroad was finished in what year?
The Transcontinental Railroad was finished on May 10, 1869.
Were did the transcontinental railroad end?
The transcontinental railroad ended in Utah with a golden spike and bronze spike.
The new Pacific Railroad was a transcontinental railway. What does that mean?
the new pacific railroad was a transcontinental railway what does that mean?
