1 ene 1869 año - 1869 TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD COMPLETED

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The first transcontinental railroad was completed when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met. Chinese and European laborers were recruited to help lay 1800 miles of track. The costs of financing the project were too great to be borne by one group of investors.

This is a good example of big business being key to the development of american culture in the gilded age, and the connection of the west to the corporation and invention oriented east.

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