RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
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the trained ripped up the sod on the plains
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mining for coal, pollution, and blasting through mountains impacted the environment.
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mining for gold, building large trestles, and avalanches impacted the environment
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shipping crops East and fencing off farm land impacted the environment
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Detailed explanation-1: -The massive amount of wood needed to build the railroad, including railroad ties, support beams for tunnels and bridges, and sheds, necessitated cutting down thousands of trees, which devastated western forests. Towns and cities that sprung up along the railroad further encroached upon what had been wild areas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Railroads became a major industry, stimulating other heavy industries such as iron and steel production. These advances in travel and transport helped drive settlement in the western regions of North America and were integral to the nation’s industrialization.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following was an effect of the transcontinental railroad? The population of the West increased. How did new railroads benefit western cattle ranchers? It provided a way to transport meat to eastern markets.
Detailed explanation-4: -But there was also a dark side to the historic national project. The railroad was completed by the sweat and muscle of exploited labor, it wiped out populations of buffalo, which had been essential to Indigenous communities, and it extended over land that had been unlawfully seized from tribal nations.