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What were some of the challenges that railroad faced in building across America?
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When was the first railroad track across the Unitad states completed?
2002
The railroad decreased transportation time across the US from about six months to?
Travel time across the country took about six months before the Transcontinental Railroad. That time was reduced to six days after its completion.
From 1850 to 1890 the railroad mileage across the US increased by how much?
400%
Who ensecured a direct line across the American territory for the southern railroad to the pacific?
Gadsden Purchase
During the Gilded Age most of the railroad barons?
Railroads were the chief cause for the unprecedented growth of the Gilded Age. Railroad Barons by building of the Transcontinental Railroad made travel accessible to more people. A trip that would have taken six months now only took six days. It also made the shipping of goods across the company economically feasible and increased sales for businesses that relied on the transportation industry in some way.
The California based railroad comapany headed by leland Stanford that employed Chinese laborers in building lines across the mountains?
The Central Pacific Railroad used Chinese laborers in building the first transcontinental railroad over the mountain.
The california based railroad company headed by Leland Stanford that employed chinese laborers in building lines across the mountains?
The Central Pacific Railroad.
What is the Canadian railway trilogy?
The Canadian Railroad Trilogy is a long, wonderful piece of music about the building of the railroad across Canada, written and sung by Gordon Lightfoot.
What were Sir Mackenzie bowell's accomplishments?
he set a railroad across america and he ate parmasean cheese
How did the panama canal affect the railroad traveling across America?
because it might flood over the us
What was the human cost of building the transcontinental railroad?
Two serious costs of building the transcontinental railroad are monetary costs and the costs of human life. Building a railroad across the country was both expensive money-wise, and it was also dangerous to the men who built the railroads.
Was malaria at first a problem in building the canal across Central America?
YES.
Politicians who supported America building a canal across the narrow section of Central America argued that?
the canal was needed for America's self-defense
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.
The federal government formed the interstate commerce commission to oversee?
Railroad operations across the nation
Which is a way people in the US have modified the environment of North America?
by building roads all across the country
Is the transcontinental railroad the same as the continental railroad?
Yes, it is because itgoes across the continent.
