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How did the railroads benefit the economy?
They were able to people and goods faster across country. Businesses like Sears began because of the railroad. They were a mail order catalog and sold everything from dolls to houses.
Traveling across the country helped Whitman to develop a?
love for the people of America.
What did the nativists do when the railroads were finished?
When the railroads were completed, some nativists threatened railroad owners with harm if they hired Chinese people. This resulted in some of the railroads in the west hiring more workers out of Mexico.
As railroads grew?
people began to travel farther from their homes
How did the railroads change the west?
One thing the Transcontinental Railroad did for the west was eliminating the Oregon Trail. Essentially, you could move to the West (California predominantly) without the hardships, many times death, that came with traveling the Oregon Trail.
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