Answer:
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Explanation:
The first Transcontinental Railroad was built between 1863 and 1869 and stretched from the East coast to West cost of US. It made the travel cheaper, safer and faster as instead of wagons now people could travel by train. It also eased the supply of goods, mail and facilitated trade.
Pacific railroad act was passed during the presidency of President Abraham Lincoln. Although the talk for the transcontinental railroad started around 1830 and people such as Asa Whitney tried to lobby the government for it but no act was passed by the Congress to build the railroad.
It was the Pacific Railroad Act that gave the railroad companies the land to build the railroad. The act allowed the construction of two railroads lines, The Central Pacific Railroad from California and the Union Pacific Railroad from the Midwest, the two lines would meet somewhere in the middle.
Building the railroad was no easy task, the Central Pacific Railroad had to deal with mountains and snow and the Union Pacific Railroad with Native Americans. A number of tunnels were blasted through the Sierra Nevada Mountains as it was only way to travel beyond the mountains
They were paid for building each mile of railroad and they got more money for the track build on in the mountains than the flat plains. Most of the workers on the Union Pacific Railroad were Irish labourers while the Central pacific was built by Chinese immigrants.
