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The document discusses the building of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States in the 1860s. Two companies, the Central Pacific Railroad Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company, worked to build the railroad lines that met in Promontory, Utah in 1869. The railroad dramatically reduced travel time to the American West from 6 months to a maximum of 8 days and helped enable expansion of the frontier by facilitating trade, transportation of cattle and settlers, and the destruction of Native A
- Author
- Mazen Adel
- Language
- EN