It encouraged western settlement by making it possible for farmers and ranchers to send their products to the East.
Railroads were crucial to western expansion because they allowed people to easily relocate there.
Traveling to and from cities became easier.
The railroads permitted the greater westward expansion not only in the construction but in the use.
One statement that is not true regarding the expansion of the railroads is that no laws were passed to regulate the railroads. This was during the expansion from 1860 to 1900. (A+) Railroad expansion took business away from the trucking industry.
One thing the government did to facilitate the expansion of the railroads was by giving land grants to railroad companies. The government also provided loans.
Railroads made it easier to get to seaports in western Europe.
After the United States Civil War, railroads penetrated the vast majority of the country's regions and companies.
Subsidies to railroads
The West. (BIN)
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