RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
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Made it easy for people to go on vacation
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It made French people want to move here
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New towns and factories began to pop up at the train stops.
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It made it easy and cheap to transport goods
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Detailed explanation-1: -The railroad opened the way for the settlement of the West, provided new economic opportunities, stimulated the development of town and communities, and generally tied the country together.
Detailed explanation-2: -Just as it opened the markets of the west coast and Asia to the east, it brought products of eastern industry to the growing populace beyond the Mississippi. The railroad ensured a production boom, as industry mined the vast resources of the middle and western continent for use in production.
Detailed explanation-3: -Railroads completely transformed the United States socially, politically, and economically during the Gilded Age. Literally the engine of the new industrialized economy, they facilitated the speedy transportation of raw materials and finished goods from coast to coast.
Detailed explanation-4: -One year into the Civil War, a Republican-controlled Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act (1862), guaranteeing public land grants and loans to the two railroads it chose to build the transcontinental line, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific.