Central Pacific Railroad Act
GPTKB entity
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instance_of |
gptkb:legislation
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| gptkbp:affects |
gptkb:Central_Pacific_Railroad
gptkb:Union_Pacific_Railroad |
| gptkbp:amended_by |
gptkb:Pacific_Railroad_Act_of_1864
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| gptkbp:associated_with |
gptkb:Collis_Potter_Huntington
gptkb:Mark_Hopkins gptkb:Leland_Stanford gptkb:Charles_Crocker gptkb:Gilded_Age American frontier history Native American displacement transportation innovations land speculation economic disparity American economic history railroad safety regulations railroad strikes transportation economics telegraph expansion railroad expansion policies Chinese immigrant labor economic growth in the 19th century railroad barons transportation networks development government subsidies for railroads railroad financing methods urbanization in the West environmental impacts of railroads industrialization of America labor issues in railroad construction land grants controversy political lobbying by railroad companies |
| gptkbp:can_lead_to |
development of new towns along the route
increased trade between East and West increased immigration to the West improved transportation of goods and people |
| gptkbp:contributed_to |
westward expansion of the United States
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| gptkbp:effective_date |
July 1, 1862
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| gptkbp:enacted_by |
gptkb:legislation
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| gptkbp:grants |
land grants to railroad companies
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| gptkbp:historical_context |
Civil War era
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Central Pacific Railroad Act
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| gptkbp:impact |
economic development in the western United States
|
| gptkbp:influenced_by |
gptkb:Manifest_Destiny
|
| gptkbp:influences |
railroad industry regulations
federal funding for infrastructure projects land use policies in the West modern transportation policy |
| gptkbp:is_cited_in |
subsequent transportation legislation
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| gptkbp:is_discussed_in |
economic history studies
historical analyses of American infrastructure legislative history reviews |
| gptkbp:is_implemented_in |
gptkb:Central_Pacific_Railroad_Company
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| gptkbp:legal_issue |
still in effect as historical legislation
|
| gptkbp:provides |
government bonds to support construction
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| gptkbp:purpose |
to promote the construction of a railroad and telegraph line
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| gptkbp:related_to |
gptkb:Transcontinental_Railroad
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| gptkbp:repealed_by |
gptkb:None
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| gptkbp:significance |
facilitated the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad
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| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Central_Pacific
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
4
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