The passage of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Acts was made possible by the absence of Southern congressmen and senators who had opposed the measures in the 1850s.

* Atlantic ( train ), a named passenger train operated by Canadian Pacific Railway and later Via Rail

* 1961 – The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.

* Canadian Pacific Railway, serving major cities in Canada and the northeastern United States

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( It was reorganized in 1899 as the Central Pacific " Railway ".

Cleveland's supporters rehashed the old allegations that Blaine had corruptly influenced legislation in favor of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad and the Union Pacific Railway, later profiting on the sale of bonds he owned in both companies.

* 1855 – A locomotive, on the Panama Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

* 1889 – The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.

Macdonald was designated as the first Prime Minister of the new nation, and served in that capacity for most of the remainder of his life, losing office for five years in the 1870s over the Pacific Scandal ( corruption in the financing of the Canadian Pacific Railway ).

The construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ( now Canadian National Railway ) through this district made it of some importance at the start of the 20th century.

** President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railway Acts, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

The construction and operation of the line was authorized by the Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864 during the American Civil War.

Its construction was made possible by the Congress through the passage of Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1867.

# REDIRECT Pacific Railroad Acts

The Pacific Railway Acts provided the development of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 provided for the land needed to build the transcontinental railroad.

The Pacific Railroad Acts were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies.

Some of its provisions were subsequently modified, expanded, or repealed by four additional amending Acts: The Pacific Railroad Act of 1863 ( 12 Stat.

* Full annotated texts of all Acts and Resolves passed by the Congress of the United States relating to the Pacific Railroad ( 1862 – 1874 ) Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

* REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE PACIFIC RAILROAD AND TELEGRAPH Including a Minority Report & Proposed Pacific Railroad Acts, 34th Congress, 1st Session, House Report # 358 ( 1856 ) Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

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The Southern states had blocked westward rail expansion before 1860, but after secession the Pacific Railway Acts were passed in 1862, allowing the first transcontinental railroad to be completed in 1869, making possible a six-day trip from New York to San Francisco.

Combined, the two Acts prohibited Pacific Islanders from entering the country after 1904, and those who had arrived beforehand had to be licenced.

The Acts also provided that from 1906, any Pacific Islander still in Australia could be instantly deported.

Examples include " Across the Pacific: Contemporary Korean and Korean American Art " ( 1993 ), " Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora " ( 1998 ), " Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century " ( 2000 ), and " Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia 1990-2001 " ( 2001 ).

# REDIRECT Pacific Railroad Acts

On 28 July 1982, following a stiff tightening of Pacific Island immigration by the Muldoon government, in its interpretation of the 1923 and 1928 British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, the Privy Council ruled that all Samoans born between 1924 and 1948, and their children, were British subjects and hence, on 1 January 1949, had become New Zealand citizens.

Planned by Theodore Judah, the Central Pacific Railroad was authorized by Congress in 1862.

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He contributed to the passage of the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, which authorized construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

A previous school, the Cooper Medical College of the University of Pacific ( founded 1858 ), entered a period of uncertainty in 1862 when its founder, Dr. Elias Samuel Cooper, died.

While the Pacific Railroad Act was to award the eastern contract to the newly formed Union Pacific, it was left up to then President Lincoln to formally choose the location for the railroad to start and Lincoln in 1862 was to follow the advice of his former client.

After the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, Ogden was named as the first president of the Union Pacific Railroad.

As part of the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, Congress named several existing railroad companies to complete portions of the project.

* The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 ( based on an earlier bill in 1856 ) authorized land grants for new lines that would " aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean ".

Peruvian slave raiders (" blackbirders ") seeking workers to mine the guano deposits on the Chincha Islands in Peru, combed the Pacific between 1862 and 1865, including the southern islands of Tuvalu.

* 1862 – Pacific Railway Act

A major fire and the Great Flood of 1862 put a halt to the pioneer settlement in 1861, dispersing many of the surviving family members throughout the Pacific Northwest.

The original company, prior to later uniting with the Central Pacific Railroad, was incorporated on July 1, 1862 under an act of Congress entitled Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.

On July 1, 1862 President Lincoln signed into law the Pacific Railroad Act that in addition to promoting the transcontinental railroad allowed the Union Pacific Railroad to make subsidiary railroad branch lines, including one through Kansas.

In 1862, Congress enacted two major laws to facilitate settlement of the West: the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railroad Act.