Transcontinental Railroad Timeline
Category: History
Updated: 8 months ago
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Created byEkata Bandyopadhyay
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Theodore forms the Central Pacific railroad company to make a railroad across the countryAbraham Lincoln passes the Railway Act allowing the railroad to be builtThe Central Pacific lays its first tracksThe Central Pacific hires the first Chinese workersThe Union Pacific lays its first tracksA tunnel explosion kills one white worker and five Chinese workersThree thousand Central Pacific Chinese workers go on a 8-day strikeCentral Pacific workers successfully blast 1,659 feet through a peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to construct the Summit TunnelCentral Pacific workers lay ten miles of track in a single dayThe Golden Spike ceremony celebrates the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines at Promontory Summit, Utah
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