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Library Binding El Ferrocarril Transcontinental (the Transcontinental Railroad) [Spanish] Book

ISBN: 1502628953

ISBN13: 9781502628954

El Ferrocarril Transcontinental (the Transcontinental Railroad) [Spanish]

(Part of the Fuentes Primarias de la Expansión Hacia el Oeste / Primary Sources of Westward Expansion Series)

People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts of our divided nation. An act of Congress in 1862 authorized the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies to build a railroad that would link the coasts. Seven years later, on May 10, 1869, an overwhelmingly immigrant labor force completed the task when a...

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