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On May 10th 1869 a symbolic Golden Spike was driven at what was called the Promontory Summit in the Utah Territory to mark the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. How did the U.S. government BEST support and encourage the completion of the project? (1 point)
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by sending former Civil War soldiers to work on the railroad
by breaking up Native American reservations into homesteads
by giving railroad companies land and development incentives
by founding port cities on the West Coast to trade with East Asia