expanded trade easy transportation
The Indians in Kentuckey
The Transcontinental Railroad helped to connect the East with the West, increased trade between the East and the West, and helped with the growth of the US.
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The Far West territories
the pacific railroad act helped fund the building of the railroad and it gave the railroad company land.
The Transcontinental railroad was needed because the mining industry created a need for faster transportation-- stage coach lines and wagons were not moving fast enough.
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Railroads; the transcontinental railroad was essential to the development.
The Transcontinental railroad was needed because the mining industry created a need for faster transportation-- stage coach lines and wagons were not moving fast enough.
Building of railroads helped make inland transportation and commerce possible in the US. During the Civil War, work on the railroads came to a halt. After the war, the first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.