Transcontinental Railroad
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- Transcontinental Railway
- 1862 Pacific Railroad Act
- Signed by President Lincoln
- Agreed on Northern rote
- Split job between companies
- Union Pacific (From East)
- Central Pacific (from West)
- Loaned $14,000 to companies for each mile of track ($48,000 for mountain areas)
- Gave companies land on either side of railroad to sell
- Building boomed after end of Civil War in 1865
- Union Pacific started on Omaha and built West
- Central Pacific started in Sacramento, built East
- 1862 Pacific Railroad Act
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