History of the United States

The goal was to keep a political balance between slave states and free states.

Sales of American products to other countries would go down

By going through the court system

It was too difficult to travel to get goods somewhere else

Planting

The earliest railroads did not have a locomotive- there were several that were built using gravity and mules to moves cars on a track. Among the earliest that actually used a locomotive was the Granite Railway in Quincy Mass (1826). It was 3 miles long, and used to move granite stone from a quarry.

The working class

Missouri & Maine. APEX.

the cotton gin

The growth in the use of railroads was made possible because of cattle shipments. The Industrial Revolution was also a major factor in building more railroads.

White male suffrage. (APEX)

Experience in organizing movements. (apex)