America: A Narrative History (Ninth Edition)

Union Pacific: Civil War veterans, formers slaves, Irish and German immigrants . b. Central Pacific: primarily Chinese . 3. First transcontinental railroad completed in Promontory, Utah, 1869 . 4. Other transcontinental railroads . C. Financing the railroads . 1. Role of the robber barons . a. Crédit Mobilier . b. Jay Gould . c. Cornelius Vanderbilt . III. Manufacturing and inventions . A ... ................
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