what is a fault
There was an increase in population in the American interior
The government subsidized (giving money) the building of tracks and then the companies used that money to build more tracks.
No land was purchased, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was passed for the purpose of building the transcontinental railroad. Specifically, it defined the borders for the territory of Nebraska to be broken up into two, Kansas and Nebraska. Kansas would become a state and the railroad would be built through it. The conflict between then-slaveholding South and free-soil North would cause the conflict known as Bloody Kansas, in which a state of near civil war and anarchy ensued. Bloody Kansas occurred because both regions (South, North) wanted a state in their control to send Senators to Congress and lean the balance of power in their favor (at the time, there were an even number of Senators from both regions).
They gave them lots of land to build the tracks on. Another answer: railroads were given checker-board parcels of land on which to build their road beds, and afterward the railroads could sell the land for profit to settlers.
They gave the land as an incentive to build the railroad .
what is a fault
what is a fault
For railroad right of way.
It was good land to build railroad tracks on.
It was good land to build railroad tracks on.
There was an increase in population in the American interior
There was an increase in population in the American interior
Gadsen Purchase
Alaska
The government subsidized (giving money) the building of tracks and then the companies used that money to build more tracks.
Selling government land grants