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Building the Transcontinental Railroad How Some 20000 ~ Building the Transcontinental Railroad How 20000 Chinese Immigrants Made It Happen At first railroad companies were reluctant to hire Chinese workers but the immigrants soon proved to be vital They toiled through backbreaking labor during both frigid winters and blazing summers Hundreds died from explosions landslides accidents and disease
Building The Transcontinental Railroad History of America ~ The construction of a transcontinental railroad was one of the United States’ greatest technological achievements Railroad track had to be laid over 2000 miles of rugged terrain including mountains of solid granite The first spikes were driven in 1863 in the midst of the Civil War
First Transcontinental Railroad Wikipedia ~ The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1912mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern rail network at Council Bluffs Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay The rail line was built by three private companies over public lands provided by extensive US land grants Construction was financed by both state and US government subsidy bonds as well as by company issued mortgage bondsN 1 The Wester
Transcontinental Railroad ~ Transcontinental Railroad summary The First Transcontinental Railroad was built crossing the western half of America and it was pieced together between 1863 and 1869 It was 1776 miles long and served for the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States to be connected by rail for the first time in history
The Pacific Railway The Transcontinental Railroad ~ The first trains began to run in America in the 1830s along the East Coast By the 1840s the nations railway networks extended throughout the East South and Midwest and the idea of building a railroad across the nation to the Pacific gained momentum
10 Ways the Transcontinental Railroad Changed America ~ “Together they gave the United States the single largest market in the world which provided the basis for the rapid expansion of American industry and agriculture to the point where the
First transcontinental railroad is completed HISTORY ~ First transcontinental railroad is completed At Promontory Utah California Governor Leland Stanford pounds in a ceremonial golden spike that completes the nation’s first transcontinental
ChineseAmericans and the Transcontinental Railroad ~ The Transcontinental Railroad was a dream of a country set on the concept of Manifest Destiny In 1869 the dream was made a reality at Promontory Point Utah with the connection of two railway lines The Union Pacific began construction of their rail in Omaha Nebraska working toward the west
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