Civil War

To what extent did the building of the first transcontinental railroad linking the East and the West contribute to the wrenching apart of the North and the South?

Photographs of the Chinese construction workers on the Central Pacific Railroad

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Are the photographs of the Chinese a permanent exhibit? Does it travel? ...

—Mary

The Big Four

"Who was the leader of the Central Pacific Railroad during the construction of the transcontinental Railroad? [January 8, 1863 - May 10, 1869]
I am doing a project on a the transcontinental railroad and I was wondering who was the boss of everything that the Central Pacific Railroad does; also I am wondering what was the address to their headquarters during that time."

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