Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Development of the Plains.
An 1862 law that provided federal funding and land grants for the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, completed in 1869.
Pacific Railroad Act appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for The American West, especially Development of the Plains and Changes for Indigenous Peoples.
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