Edexcel GCSE History · 1HI0
Paper 2
Revise: Development of SettlementThe Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 gave the Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies the task of constructing the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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GCSE History · key term
A railway crossing a continent. The First Transcontinental Railroad connected railway routes across the United States in 1869.
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Paper 2
Revise: Development of SettlementThe Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 gave the Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies the task of constructing the First Transcontinental Railroad.
Paper 3
A railway linking the eastern and western United States. The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.
Revise: White American exploitationThe government’s commitment to remove Indigenous land rights along the proposed transcontinental railroad shows how economic development and territorial control were connected.
Keep the chronology clear: the Pacific Railroad Act was passed in 1862; the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869.
Use precise examples: the Pacific Railroad Act (1862), the Goodnight–Loving Trail (1866), McCoy’s stockyards at Abilene (1867) and the completion of the first transcontinental railroad (1869).
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