Question

The first attempts to create a transcontinental railroad failed in part because

Answer 1

Congress could not agree on where the line would run.

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Answer 2

They failed because nobody cared about the railroad. The railroad had to be a government project with leases to companies but the government was too much involved in the slavery issue that it didn't have time to deal with railroads. That's why railroads boomed after the civil war ended.