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gptkbp:instance_of
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gptkb:historical_event
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gptkbp:constructed_in
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1863
1869
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gptkbp:cultural_impact
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influenced American art
influenced American literature
symbol of progress
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gptkbp:date
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May 10, 1869
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gptkbp:diplomatic_relations
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Irish immigrants
Chinese immigrants
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gptkbp:educational_programs
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gptkb:Collis_Potter_Huntington
gptkb:Leland_Stanford
gptkb:Thomas_C._Durant
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gptkbp:historical_figure
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gptkb:Charles_S._Mellen
gptkb:Colson_Whitehead
gptkb:David_Foster_Wallace
gptkb:Jennifer_Egan
gptkb:Kiley_Reid
gptkb:Cornelius_Vanderbilt
gptkb:George_Saunders
gptkb:Louisa_May_Alcott
gptkb:Nadine_Gordimer
gptkb:James_Hill
gptkb:William_Henry_Seward
gptkb:George_Francis_Train
gptkb:Chinua_Achebe
gptkb:Don_De_Lillo
gptkb:Maya_Angelou
gptkb:Ta-Nehisi_Coates
gptkb:Toni_Morrison
gptkb:Yaa_Gyasi
gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln
gptkb:Alice_Walker
gptkb:Andrew_Carnegie
gptkb:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:Henry_James
gptkb:Jack_London
gptkb:James_Baldwin
gptkb:Kazuo_Ishiguro
gptkb:Mark_Twain
gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkb:Zadie_Smith
gptkb:Daniel_Drew
gptkb:Brigham_Young
gptkb:Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie
gptkb:Ernest_Hemingway
gptkb:Haruki_Murakami
gptkb:Henry_Ford
gptkb:John_D._Rockefeller
gptkb:Langston_Hughes
gptkb:Richard_Wright
gptkb:Salman_Rushdie
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:Thomas_Edison
gptkb:William_Faulkner
gptkb:Zora_Neale_Hurston
gptkb:Nella_Larsen
gptkb:J._M._Coetzee
gptkb:Brit_Bennett
gptkb:Gwendolyn_Brooks
gptkb:Ralph_Ellison
gptkb:Walt_Whitman
gptkb:William_H._Vanderbilt
gptkb:Octavia_Butler
gptkb:Samantha_Hunt
gptkb:Emily_Dickinson
gptkb:Edward_H._Harriman
gptkb:Jonathan_Franzen
gptkb:Theodore_Dreiser
gptkb:Jay_Gould
gptkb:John_A._Dix
gptkb:Henry_Villard
gptkb:Charles_Crocker
gptkb:Wole_Soyinka
gptkb:J._P._Morgan
gptkb:Ngũgĩ_wa_Thiong'o
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gptkbp:historical_significance
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gptkb:first_transcontinental_railroad_in_North_America
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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gptkbp:impact
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increased westward expansion
reduced travel time across the country
boosted the economy
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gptkbp:is_a_route_for
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1,907 miles
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gptkbp:is_involved_in
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gptkb:Central_Pacific_Railroad
gptkb:Union_Pacific_Railroad
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gptkbp:legislation
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gptkb:Pacific_Railway_Act_of_1864
gptkb:Pacific_Railway_Act_of_1862
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:Promontory_Summit,_Utah
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gptkbp:opening_ceremony
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Golden Spike Ceremony
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gptkbp:payment_methods
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government bonds
land grants
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gptkbp:railway_line
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arrived at Promontory Summit
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gptkbp:seating_capacity
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facilitated trade
enabled faster mail delivery
revolutionized travel
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gptkbp:significance
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connected the eastern U. S. to the western U. S.
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Central_Pacific_Railroad
gptkb:First_Transcontinental_Railroad_trip
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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5
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