Answer:
The Southern states wanted to count the entire slave population. This would increase their number of members of Congress.
<span>African Americans were not protected under the law.</span>
The Pacific Railway Act<span> was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 1,</span>1862<span>. This </span>act<span> provided Federal government support for the building of the first transcontinental </span>railroad<span>, which was completed on May 10, 1869.</span>
