Select the correct year for each of the following events. Use the timeline to help you. Asa Whitney asked Congress to support building a railroad.

Asa Whitney proposed building a transcontinental railroad and asked Congress to support it in 1845. So the correct year is 1845, choice A. The other dates mark later events: Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act in 1862, and the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.

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