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| An act passed by the US congress that offered two companies government loans and free land to build a railroad. |
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| A merchant in charge of the Central Pacific Railroad. He led the railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California. |
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| The place where the last railroad spike was was hammered in to the tracks. The place where the two railroad companies met. |
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| The leader of the Union Pacific Railroad. |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| A railroad that crosses an entire continent. |
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| A day when the Central Pacific railroad company laid more than 10 miles of track in one day. It came to symbolize the hard work of the thousands of me who worked on the railroad. |
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