USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Railroads brought more people to the East Coast. Railroads allowed farmers to sell their goods in distant markets. Railroads allowed farmers to sell their goods in distant markets.

Detailed explanation-2: -The invention of the railroad and the steam powered locomotive opened up a whole new world in transportation. Now trains could travel wherever tracks could be built. Transportation was no longer limited to rivers and canals.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Industrial Revolution caused towns to turn into cities, and existing cities to swell, both in terms of population-with new arrivals from Europe and rural areas of the United States-as well as their geographic footprint, now that they were home to factories and other buildings required in manufacturing.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Industrial Revolution was the process of change from an agrarian economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.

Detailed explanation-5: -Railroads expanded significantly, bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy. Industrial growth transformed American society. It produced a new class of wealthy industrialists and a prosperous middle class. It also produced a vastly expanded blue collar working class.