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Which political party was instrumental in enacting legislation to construct an intercontinental railway?

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In 1862, before the secession of the South from the Union, the republican party in Congress was instrumental in enacting legislation that authorized the Union Pacific Railway and the Central Pacific Railroad to construct such a railway.

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