Goods produced in one region could be sent to another and sold. (ApEX)
Goods produced in one region could be sent to another and sold.
The farmers made money by planting crops and other things
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It allowed for more people to move westward, which in turn brought more raw materials to the east and finished products back to west. It increased trade and fostered economic growth.
Kansas and Nebraska were created after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The reason for this Act was to open new farmland and create a Transcontinental Railroad.
Goods produced in one region could be sent to another and sold.
the population of the west increased
it shifted westward
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united the nation into a single, integrated national market
The Chinese started building the Transcontinental railroad in 1863 and the Transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869.
The first transcontinental railroad was funded with government money.
why did they build the transcontinental railroad
a railroad that runs across the contient... the transcontinental railroad is a railroad that reaches from North Carolina to California.
The Transcontinental Railroad Acts, also known as the Pacific Railroad acts, were acts passed in the early 1860s to encourage the construction of the transcontinental railroad. Construction was incentivized by giving land and bonds to the railroad companies.
Asa Whitney thought of the Transcontinental Railroad after the Lewis and Clark expedition.
The Transcontinental Railroad was finished on May 10, 1869.