Period 7 Question 8

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Primary Source

This photograph depicts the celebration marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad lines at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, when Leland Stanford, co-founder of the Central Pacific Railroad, connected the eastern and western sections of the railroad with a golden spike.

Andrew J. Russell, Photographer, Joining of the Rails at Promontory Point, 1869 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)