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Transcontental Railroad
that Asia Whitney had presented to the Congress a plan for federal governent to subsidize the building for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific -
Civil War
During the Civil War a Republican-controlled by the Congress that enacted the legislation providing for the construction of the transcontinental line. -
The Union Pacific
In 1863 the Union Pacific RR had began the construction from Omaha, Nebr.,the Central Pacific had broke ground at the Sacramento,Calif. -
Transcontinental Railroad completed
there was a golden spike that had two railways thus that was completing for the first transcontinental railroad. the others had followed. there were three additional lines that were finished in the date of 1883: the northern Pacific RR had streched from Lake Superior to Portland, Oreg.; the other Santa Fe that had extended form Atchison, Kans., to Los Angeles; and the Southern Pacific that had connected to Los Angeles with New Orleans.
