Question 2 • FL-2100315-United States History CR
The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 authorized the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads to build a transcontinental line toward each other. The Union Pacific started in the east and the Central Pacific started in the west, meeting at Promontory Summit in Utah in 1869. So the act called for two companies to build the line from different directions.
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