Permanent historical factsheet

Transcontinental Railroad

United States · Government / Republican Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1862Date range
1Named people
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Chronological records

1862

Abraham Lincoln7 January 1862

Washington DC · Government / Republican Party Government

Pacific Railway Act grants federal support for construction of the transcontinental railroad

Names involved

Abraham Lincoln

Provenance

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