Hand tools such as picks, shovels, wheelbarrows, hand-powered augers (drills), sledgehammers, levels and transits would have been necessary to build and complete the world's first transcontinental railroad in the US.
Hand tools such as picks, shovels, wheelbarrows, hand-powered augers (drills), sledgehammers, levels and transits would have been necessary to build and complete the world's first transcontinental railroad in the US.
The use of chinese immagrants to build the line
Transcontinental just means crossing a continent. Transcontinental is an adjective. Most people think of the transcontinental railroad when they see this word. Transcontinental only has one meaning.
The use of Irish immigrants as workers, the use of veterans of the civil war.
The day the Transcontinental Railroad was finished, the workers drove a golden spike to connect the 2 railroads to form one. Also the transcontinental railroad was made so people could cross the United States faster.You could travel first class across the country in four days.Only parts of the Transcontinental Railroad are in use today.The Central Pacific had to blast 19 tunnels through the Sierra Nevada.Before the railroad, to get to California from the east coast by boat took about 190 days.It took the work of thousands of men to build the Transcontinental Railroad.The entire project of the building of the railroad costed hundreds of millions of dollars. And that was the cost in the nineteenth century who knows what it could cost now. Maybe, billions, or even trillions of dollars! two thirds of the workers were Asian the other was American and Irish.
well the answer is Ireland and china
The farmers made money by planting crops and other things
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