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08/30 Bellringer Respond with 4-5 sentences The transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. It linked the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. One historian has said that the transcontinental railroad did more than politics to bind East and West into a single nation. How do you think advances in transportation help bind (or unite) the country together?

Miners, ranchers, and farmers were connected to Eastern cities in 1869 with the completion of the transcontinental railroad The federal government encouraged railroad construction by giving millions of acres of land to railroad companies

The Central Pacific was built from West to East by Chinese workers The Union Pacific was built from East to West by Irish workers

On May 10, 1869 the two tracks met at Promontory Point in Utah By 1890, there were five railroads that extended to the Pacific Coast

Railroad innovations included time zones to coordinate train schedules …luxury trains called Pullman Palace cars and refrigerated train cars

Chinese workers were recruited to America to build the railroad… …But, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 which ended Chinese immigration to America

The migration of Americans into the West left no unorganized territories by 1890… the western frontier had closed

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