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A financier in this industry commissioned photographs of his horse Sallie Gardner, and collaborated with Collis Huntington and Mark Hopkins. Rutherford (15[1])B. Hayes sent federal troops during an 1877 (15[1])“Great Strike” in (15[1])this industry. (15[4])Eugene (15[1])Debs was jailed for leading a strike of workers in this (15[1])industry against (15[1])the (*) Pullman Company. (10[1])Leland Stanford was one of the founders of this industry’s Central Pacific company which along with Union Pacific completed a major project with a golden spike in Promontory Point, Utah. For 10 points, name this industry whose workers constructed a “transcontinental” project for accessible train travel. ■END■

ANSWER: railroad Industry [accept railways or railroad; prompt on trains; prompt on train industry] (Sallie Gardner was Leland Stanford’s horse that Eadward Muybridge photographed.)
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