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In 1863, workers for the Central Pacific Railroad began laying railroad tracks in which place?
Sacramento
Eventually, antiseptic was invented which helped kill what?
Kill germs and to treat wounds.
Chinese immigrants worked for what?
Central Pacific Railroad
In 1865, workers for the Union Pacific Railroad began laying railroad tracks in which place?
Omaha, Nebraska
What was the first school of nursing that opened in New York?
Bellevue Hospital
Chicago continued to grow, but in 1871, a fire destroyed the city. As they rebuilt the city, architects began to design tall office buildings, making Chicago the first center of what?
Skyscraper architecture
Finally, on May 10, 1869, two railroad lines met where?
Promontory Summit, Utah
The idea of extensive medical research began with the opening of which medical school?
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Many soldiers who were wounded in the war died because they did not have the benefit of what?
Sterilized surgical instruments and wound dressings.
In 1869, Roebling began building a bridge across the East River between the cities of New York and Brooklyn. When he died, his son Washington took over the what?
Brooklyn Bridge Project
John Roebling, a German engineer, pioneered the design of what?
Suspension bridges in the United States
With the introduction of better anesthetics (painkillers), What made even greater progress?
Surgical practices made even greater progress.
This city and state became a prime location to start construction for the tall office buildings.
Chicago, Illinois
Irish immigrants and Civil War veterans worked mostly for what?
The Union Pacific Railroad
Daniel Hale Williams, a Black American physician who pioneered heart surgery, established what?
Provident hospital in Chicago, the first hospital open to all, regardless of skin color.