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Plan for federal government to subsidize the building of the railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific.
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Intended to win approval for a line from Chicago insuring sectional controversy between the North and South forced a delay in the plans.
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Built by two companies; each reseved federal land grants of ten alternate secutions per mile on both side of the line.
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Meeting place of Union Pacific RR and the Central Pacific RR. Joined with a golden rail spike.
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The northern Pacific RR started at lake superior and went to portland, Oregon.
The Santa Fe extaned from atchison,Kansas to Los Angeles.
Southern Pacific connected L.A. to New Orleans. -
Completed in 1893!!!
Each company recieved grants of land but no governmanet loans. the promise of land often resolted in poor construction, which was repaired much later.
