Financing the Transcontinental Railroad<span>. The first </span>transcontinental railroad<span>, built between 1864 and 1869, was the greatest construction project of its era. It involved building a line from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, across a vast, largely unmapped territory.</span>
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By the time he left office in August 1857 to represent the territory in Congress, Stevens had "negotiated ten treaties providing for the quieting of Indian title to some hundred thousand square miles of land."
Approval of the articles was delayed by the conditions that various states placed. The prevailing arguments included the need for a stronger central government which became apparent as the weak federal government had no powers to raise revenue or raise an army. There was also the argument that such a step would result in tyranny
Last czar (tsar) of Russia was Nicholas II; reigned ended 1917 when he and his family were shot by the Bolsheviks starting the Russian revolution.
