Which of the Following Statements Concerning the First Transcontinental Railroad

question 96

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements concerning the first transcontinental railroad is true?

• A) It was financed entirely by private capital, with no government subsidy.
• B) It was built primarily with forced labor of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Comanche prisoners of war and black slaves.
• C) It was completed in 1869 with the joining of the Union Pacific and Central tracks in Utah.
• D) It was a patchwork of short state railroads, built with little thought to transcontinental connections.
• E) It was chartered originally by the Confederacy in its hopes to take over the West and then continued by the Union after the South's defeat.

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