MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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They made it easier, cheaper, and more efficient to transport people and goods.
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It made the price of transportation more expensive.
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All industrialization happened in the North East
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The South became the home of hundreds of booming industrial centers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Running from California to Iowa the Transcontinental Railroad was the first complete overland link between east and west. It provided cheap and fast transportation across the width of the United States. Goods could be moved along the Transcontinental Railroad.
Detailed explanation-2: -The building of the transcontinental railroad opened up the American West to more rapid development. With the completion of the track, the travel time for making the 3, 000-mile journey across the United States was cut from a matter of months to under a week.
Detailed explanation-3: -The locomotive revolutionized commercial transportation with a durable, faster, cheaper way to move goods. The Governor Stanford was the first train on the Central Pacific, the first transcontinental line in 1869 when joined with the Union Pacific.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gold rush and mining opportunities (silver in Nevada) The opportunity to work in the cattle industry; to be a “cowboy” Faster travel to the West by railroad; availability of supplies due to the railroad. The opportunity to own land cheaply under the Homestead Act.