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It made it easier to travel.
There had to be stations for passengers and to fill water. It made it easier for Cattle Ranchers to deliver cattle. With all this going on you need a place to spend the night and a place to board your horses, place to eat etc. Before you know it you have a town. It helped to settle pioneers in the Great Plains.
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RafaThe Transcontinental Railroad was the result of the U.S. commitment to Manifest Destiny and its burgeoning industrial might. Long distances and slow transportation hampered contact between eastern and western commercial centers. Both the United States government and entrepreneurs sought faster transportation to link the two sections. For a decade after 1850, Congress studied possible http://www.answers.com/topic/transcontinental routes, but arguments
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The northernmost of the transcontinental railroad lines organized by James J Hill?
Great Northern Pacific Railroad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)
Who settled the Great Plains?
On the great plains, the homes of settlers were called homesteads. These types of people were farmers, cowboys, miners and railroad workers. Also ranchers and single workers settled here.
How did settlers change the great plains?
By the time there was anyone settling the Great Plains in the 1800's few were European immigrants. The settlement of the plains came as small homesteads and farms. The plains still exist as it did over a 100 years ago. Great expanses of grasslands still exist and the ruts of covered wagon wheels can still be seen. Most of the people were heading to California , Oregon, or Washington instead of staying in the plains area. Life in,the plains was hard with no trees, little water, and the weather could range from hot days to blizzards.
Many African Americans opportunity offered by the homestead act by moving to?
The Great Plains
Why is the name Great Plains a good name for the Great Plains tribe?
Because the Indians lived in the great, big plains.
