The Impacts of the Railroads
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- Created on: 01-04-18 15:54
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- Impacts of the Railroads
- Settlers and Farmers
- Made travelling west much cheaper and easier
- Encouraged immigration from Europe
- Towns grew rapidly along railroad routes
- Farmers could transport their grain and other crops to sell in the big eastern cities
- Settlers could buy products from industrial cities
- National Impacts
- Connected western and eastern territories - Manifest Destiny
- Opened up trade with the USA and Asia
- Plains Indians
- They moved away from railroad routes
- Numbers of buffalo declined
- They attacked railroad surveyors
- Led the way for the invasion of Plains Indians by White Americans
- Cattle Industry
- Enabled growth of the cattle industry
- Settlers and Farmers
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