George A. Crofutt published a guide for how to use this infrastructure project to see America’s attractions. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this massive infrastructure project completed with a Golden Spike at Promontory Summit. This project connected Sacramento to Omaha and, eventually, the rest of the country.
ANSWER: First Transcontinental Railroad [or Union Pacific Railroad]
[10m] The later Southern Pacific transcontinental railroad was made possible by this 1854 treaty which mostly settled the United States’ current border with Mexico.
ANSWER: Gadsden Purchase [or Treaty of Mesilla; or The Sale of La Mesilla]
[10h] The Great Northern Railway connected Seattle to this capital city. This city was once known as Pig’s Eye and more recently is home to the Hmong Archives.
ANSWER: Saint Paul, Minnesota [reject “Minneapolis”]
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