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The Transcontinental Railroad
Clemens, Mark. "First transcontinental railroad." Cobblestone, vol. 31, no. 5, May-June 2010, pp. 24+. Gale In Context: Middle School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A228516450/MSIC?u=gran68706&sid=bookmark-MSIC&xid=148c94a0. Accessed 28 Feb. 2022.
"The Effect of Manifest Destiny on Native Americans." Gale Middle School Online Collection, Gale, 2021. Gale In Context: Middle School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/YUQMYJ588538960/MSIC?u=gran68706&sid=bookmark-MSIC&xid=d992c9a5. Accessed 28 Feb. 2022.
"Transcontinental Railroad." Gale Middle School Online Collection, Gale, 2019. Gale In Context: Middle School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/THXYKE699762331/MSIC?u=gran68706&sid=bookmark-MSIC&xid=b3a22b33. Accessed 28 Feb. 2022.
PBS, Rocky Mountain. “Transcontinental Railroad Timeline | American Experience | PBS.” Pbs.org, 2019, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-timeline/.
The Transcontinental Railroad was a hand-built railroad that reached from America's east to west coast. When the railroad was finished in 1869, was the first time in history that the entire country of America was connected with a single rail. The Transcontinental Railroad was America’s first technological corridor.
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted
The first Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
In 1867, Chinese workers strike for better wages and shorter hours. As a result, food, supplies, and communications were shut off from the Chinese camps. Eventually, the Chinese went back to work under the same wages and hours.
Congress passes and Lincoln signs the Pacific Railroad Bill
The bill grants each enterprise 6,400 acres of land and $48,000 in government bonds per mile built. It does not designate a meeting point for the lines.
A man named Judah goes to Washington with maps and profiles appropriate for approving the Central Pacific Railroad company.
A group of Cheyenne warriors bend the rails and pull up the tracks in Nebraska. This damage causes a derailed work train which the warriors burn and loot after killing every worker but one, who escaped injured.
1864: Congress passes a revised Pacific Railroad Bill, which doubles the land grant and removed limitations on personal stock ownership.
1865: The civil war ends.
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed. As a result, a golden spike was driven into the ground. The golden spike is a ceremonial 17.6 karat gold spike driven into the ground by Leland Stanford to join the rails of Central and Union Pacific railroad.
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The Railroad could have gone through the southern states of America. Miguel A. Otero was a director of the Maxwell Land Grant and Railroad Company. He was also a director of the Atchinson, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad and he first terminal of the Santa Fe Railroad was named Otero in his honor. In congress, Otero's effort went towards building the railroad through New Mexico, giving promise to the state's future. By doing so, he aligned himself with other southern states that favored a southern route for the railroad. As a result of Otero's influence, New Mexico legislated a slave code in 1859. President Lincoln offered the post of minister to Spain to Otero, but Otero declined it because he wanted the nomination of secretary of the Territory of New Mexico, but the U.S. Senate did not confirm him because of his political views. The railroad never went through the southern route he wanted it to, and Otero died in 1882 at the age of 53 due to poor health.