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By providing free grants of federal land to the railroad companies. :)
The Government granted the Eastern and Pacific Railroad Companies subsidies to help them expand.
because telegraph wires were poles along the railroad tracks
To Encourage rapid construction
Yes.
By providing free grants of federal land to the railroad companies. :)
By providing land grants for building tracks.
By providing land grants for building tracks.
Interstate Commerce Commission was formed by the federal government to regulate railroad, telephone, and telegraph companies.
They received nothing after. While building, they were granted land and large loans. That is what the government gave them.
The Government granted the Eastern and Pacific Railroad Companies subsidies to help them expand.
By encouraging chinese Immigration
By railroad and telegraph.
By encouraging chinese Immigration.
No one "invented" the Continental Railroad. Continental Railroad was the name given to the railroad that spanned America (US) from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
because telegraph wires were poles along the railroad tracks
To Encourage rapid construction