Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Development of the Plains.
Legislation that provided government loans and land grants to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies to build a railway line connecting the East and West coasts.
Pacific Railroad Act (1862) appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for The American West, especially Development of the Plains and Development of Settlement.
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