Franklin Roosevelt was President when the first federally-funded public housing was built in the US.
the silk road
No. The English have nowhere to build a transcontinental railroad; they are on an island. The US was the first to begin such a railroad - aptly named the First Trascontinental Railroad - and the Russians soon followed with the Trans-Siberian Railway.
The first U.S. railroad line opened and ran in 1830 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The first railroad to connect the east and west coasts of the US was the First Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1869. The project linked the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific Railroad from the east at Promontory Summit, Utah.
1869
In 1862 Congress authorized construction of two railroads to link the Midwest and the West Coast. The Union Pacific Railroad extended westward from Nebraska; the Central Pacific Railroad went eastward from the Pacific Ocean. The two railroads met at Promontory Summit in Utah. That was the first railroad to connect the two coasts But there were railroads all over the east coast long before 1862. The first commercial railroad in the US. In 1810 a merchant named Thomas Leiper designed and built a railroad connecting Crum Creek to Ridley Creek Pennsylvania. It was closed in 1829, but in 1887 it became the Crum Creek Branch of the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad. The first railroad built in US... The first railroad built in the US is the Granite Railroad in Quincy, Mass. It was non workable due to the fact that the tracks weren't built strongly to support the train, so when trains started to move on the Granite Railroad, the tracks would break apart.
The first US railroad was in Massachusetts, then Pennsylvania. New Jersey is one state that has retained some of the track from the early 1800's.
Slavery started many thousands of years ago, it was a worldwide occurrence. The underground rail road was an escape route for slaves in the US
Andrew Johnson was president when the transcontinental railroad was started. It was completed in 1869 when U.S. Grant was president.
The Baltimore and Ohio
Ohio. The B&O Railroad line existed from 1830 until 1987.