People wanted to move NebraskaPromontory PointCalifornia10 mileswestSelect your answer, especially after the California gold rush in 1849. After years of debate, in 1862 Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act to build a ChineseCivil WarCaliforniaproblemstranscontinental railroadSelect your answer. The Union Pacific Railroad would lay track westward from Omaha, Chinese10 milesPromontory PointNebraskaCaliforniaSelect your answer, and the Central Pacific Railroad would lay track eastward from Sacramento, racetranscontinental railroadCaliforniawestNebraskaSelect your answer.

Many problemstranscontinental railroadCivil WarCaliforniawestSelect your answer faced the builders of the transcontinental railroad. At that time, it was difficult to get supplies and workers because of the Promontory Pointtranscontinental railroadChineseproblemsCivil WarSelect your answer. The Central Pacific hired mostly Civil WarNebraskaproblemsCaliforniaChineseSelect your answer and Irish immigrants to do the dangerous work of blasting the mountains with gunpowder. The Union Pacific hired mostly Irish and German immigrants at low wages. Many were killed or injured, especially the workers of the Central Pacific.

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