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The correct answers to these open questions are the following.
Where did the Transcontinental start and finish?
The Transcontinental Railroad started in Omaha, Nebraska, and ended in Sacramento. California. It finally connected the East Coast with the Pacific Coast.
What were the names of the 2 companies that worked to complete it?
The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific.
Where did each start from and where do they meet?
One started from Sacramento, California. The other, from Omaha, Nebraska. And they met in Promontory, Utah.
Who worked for these companies (meaning where did the people come from)?
Chinese immigrants worked in the Transcontinental Railroad.
The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 authorized two companies to connect the East and the West of the United States through the railroad: the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. They started works in Omaha, Nebraska, to the west, and in Sacramento, California, to the east. On May 10, 1969, they met at Promontory, Utah. One of the results of the creation of the transcontinental railroad was the Westward expansion.