Question: How did the Transcontinential Railroad help shape America?
Conjecture: I think the Transcontinential Railroad helped builed America by transporting and trading goods and making money for our government
James Watt created a steam engine
George Stephonson made a locomotive (train) for a railroad track.
Settlers move Westward to the Northern Great Plains or the Oregon Trail.
Asa Whitney wants a Railway that goes across the contry, but Congress turns down her idea.
James K. Polk (the new president) decides there should be a Railroad, but doesn't have enough money to support the idea.
The Gold Rush begins!
After many not finding gold, the settlers move to different parts of California and Nevada to try to make a more normal lifestyle.
The chinese need jobs so they go and work for the railroad that has officially been started. Governor Leland Stanford also digs the first mark or the railroad
The Civil War ends and many soldiers need jobs so they go work for the railroad.
The railroad began in Sacrementl, California and is now at Omaha, Newbraska.
Done
the railroad is finally finished and is used for daily things like shipping!