The two railroad companies involved in the transcontinental railroad were the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. They completed the track on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah.
Ulysses Grant was the US president when the transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869.
The Transcontinental railroad was completed in a ceremony in the Utah Territory in 1869. The railway enabled travel from the US east coast to the west coast.
America's first transcontinental railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Peak, Utah. Governor Stanford drove the last spike, sometimes called the golden spike, to signify the completion of the railroad.
The Government granted the Eastern and Pacific Railroad Companies subsidies to help them expand.
The Federal government paid the two railroad companies that built it by granting them sections (one square mile) on alternating sides of any tracks that they built. The railroad companies could do whatever they wanted with this land and often sold it off. Many other western railroads were later funded the same way.
A+ Central Pacific---Union Pacific
The construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad started in 1863 and was finished in 1869. When it was first completed, it was known as the Pacific Railroad.
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Ulysses Grant was the US president when the transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869.
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.
Central Pacific Railroad Company (started in Sacramento, CA) and the Union Pacific Railroad Company (starting in Omaha) both met at Promontory Summit, Utah.
The first transcontinental railroad was funded with government money.
Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Andrew Johnson was president when the transcontinental railroad was started. It was completed in 1869 when U.S. Grant was president.
the central and pacific railroad compnaies.
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