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Reconstruction Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pacific Railway Act | The Pacific Railroad Acts were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" in the United States . SIgned into law by Lincoln in 1863 |
| Central Pacific | Work began in 1863, outside of Sacramento California, 10,000 men made up this work force. Building the railroads to meet the other work force of builders half way. |
| What happens when the people building the railway got to the Sierra Nevada Mountains? | They used Nitrogen to blow them up |
| WHat caused the Chinese immigrants working on the railroad to go on strike? | For the dangerous hard work they were doing, they weren't getting paid enough. |
| 10 Mile Day | Each railway work team was having a competition of who could get more done faster. The central pacific had an amazing record of 10 miles in one day. |
| promontory point | the site of the dramatic completion, on 10 May 1869, of the first transcontinental railroad, which linked the Union Pacific on the east and the Central Pacific on the west |
| Monopoly | one company that dominates the industry |
| Robber Barons | a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century). |
| Andrew Carnegie | Scottish immigrant.Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people in history |
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