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railroads helped transport steel to other places
Cornelius Vanderbilt is the Captain of the industry of railroads.
The North used railroads for importing goods.
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Was within walking distance of where they worked
Was within walking distance of where they worked
The railroad created many boomtowns and larger settlements. Small towns with railroads were known as railway towns.
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cog railroads are yellow trains railroads are black
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He was a lawyer and had different admin jobs in various railroads.
The first railroads were owned by mining companies, which was followed by private companies, then utilility companies for streetcars, and finally the government took over many railroads and streetcars. So, the area and railroad and the time period that you may be concerned with will result in different answers.
Railroads allow different cities and areas to be connected to each other which makes new markets available to different business for trade. The train also provides an easy and fast way to transport such goods. This makes railroads very important to many economies, especially when large quantities of goods need to travel over large spans of land.
The Railroad Co. misused the government land grants, which the railroads sold to other businesses rather than to settlers, as the gov. intended to do. The railroads also entered into formal agreements to fix In_what_ways_did_the_railroad_companies_use_their_power_to_hurt_farmers, which helped keep farmers in their debt. They also charged different customers different rates, often demanding more for short hauls than they did for long hauls.