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Which president made it a priority to complete the transcontinental railroad?

A. Thomas Jefferson
B. James Buchanan
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Andrew Johnson

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It was President Lincoln who made it a priority to complete the transcontinental railroad, since Lincoln was well aware of the advantageous economic and social effects such a system would have on the United States. 
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