Assertion: transcontinental railroad | /r/CapableOf | back by federal government
Facets:
value: heavily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Authorized by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 and heavily backed by the federal government, the first transcontinental railroad was the culmination of a decades-long movement to build such a line and was one of the crowning achievements of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, completed four years after his death.