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The 1862 Act authorized extensive land grants[3] in the Western United States and the issuance of 30-year government bonds (at 6 percent) to the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad companies.
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The compaines decide to employ chinese immigrants to save money on labor cost
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The first Union Pacific rails are laid in Omaha, Nebraska.
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used to describe the itinerant collection of flimsily assembled gambling houses, dance halls, saloons, and brothels that followed the army of Union Pacific railroad workers
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The east coast and the west coast were finally connected. The industrialism in the east and the wilds in the west.
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Egypt's Suez Canal linked Asia and India to Europe by a single waterway, ensuring that trade between the two regions would continue to circumvent American soil.
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Just as it opened the markets of the west coast and Asia to the east, it brought products of eastern industry to the growing populace in the west.
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The rails carried more than goods; they provided a conduit for ideas, a pathway for discourse. "Conversations begun in the east ended in the west."
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Not everyone would benefit from the railroad. The transcontinental railroad was not the beginning of white settlers' battles with Native Americans, and it wasn't the last.
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The transcontinental railroad did not long remain the sole venue of travel through America's center. Lines spider webbed outward from its branch points, conveying north and south
