Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:affects	gptkb:U.S._economy westward expansion Native American communities
gptkbp:attendedBy	gptkb:Leland_Stanford gptkb:Grenville_Dodge gptkb:Thomas_Durant gptkb:Samuel_S._Montague
gptkbp:commemoratedBy	gptkb:Golden_Spike_National_Historical_Park
gptkbp:date	May 10, 1869
gptkbp:employs	gptkb:Chinese_immigrants Irish immigrants Civil War veterans
gptkbp:enables	coast-to-coast travel by rail faster movement of goods and people
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Promontory_Summit,_Utah_Territory
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	gptkb:Harper's_Weekly
gptkbp:organization	gptkb:Union_Pacific_Railroad gptkb:Central_Pacific_Railroad
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:Pacific_Railway_Act
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Transcontinental_Railroad gptkb:Golden_Spike_Ceremony
gptkbp:resultedIn	decline of wagon trains boost in national commerce increased settlement of the American West
gptkbp:significance	First continuous railroad line across the United States
gptkbp:symbolizes	gptkb:Golden_Spike
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:North_America_(late_19th_century)
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6