What impact did the coming of the railroad have?
Eugene Cole
2025-05-11 04:24:26
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Road transport could not compete. As well as being much more time consuming, it was also more expensive. Even in those first ten years, railways were beginning to lead to significant changes within British society. The same journey had taken 20 hours by canal. The cost of canal carriage was 15 shillings a ton, whereas by rail it was 10 shillings a ton. Railway expansion at this time was rapid. Railways allowed people to travel further, more quickly. This allowed leisure travel, and contributed to the growth of seaside resorts. It also allowed people to live further from their places of work, as the phenomenon of commuting took hold. Railways even contributed to the growth of cities, by allowing the cheap transport of food, as well as bricks, slate and other building materials. They also gave a great stimulus to industry by reducing the freight costs of heavy materials such as coal and minerals, as well as reducing costs of transporting finished goods around the country.
Jefferey Abbott
2025-05-09 03:35:16
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The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage. Travelers could make the trip between San Francisco and New York in a week. The coasts were connected -- and the world as Americans knew it had grown smaller. Within ten years of its completion, the railroad shipped $50 million worth of freight coast to coast every year. The railroad ensured a production boom, as industry mined the vast resources of the middle and western continent for use in production. The railroad was America's first technology corridor. Distances shrank, but identification to land and fellow American grew in inverse proportion. The rails carried more than goods; they provided a conduit for ideas, a pathway for discourse. With the completion of its great railroad, America gave birth to a transcontinental culture.
The transcontinental railroad was not the beginning of white settlers' battles with Native Americans. But it was an irrevable marker of encroaching white society, that unstoppable force which would force Indians onto reservations within decades. By 1890, even the Powder River Valley — the rich hunting ground so hard won by red Cloud and the Oglala Sioux — would be lost. The railroad introduced the herds to American industrial production, for which they became one more resource to be mined en masse. Millions of buffalo fell to indiscriminate slaughter, their hides shipped back along the rails to the markets of the East.
Darion Heaney
2025-04-25 03:14:15
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The railroad opened the way for the settlement of the West, provided new economic opportunities, stimulated the development of town and communities, and generally tied the country together. When the railroads were shut down during the great railroad strike of 1894, the true importance of the railroads was fully realized. By 1900, much of the nation's railroad system was in place. Beginning in the early 1870s, railroad construction in the United States increased dramatically. Between 1871 and 1900, another 170,000 miles were added to the nation's growing railroad system. Much of the growth can be attributed to the building of the transcontinental railroads. The first such railroad was completed on May 10, 1869. By 1900, four additional transcontinental railroads connected the eastern states with the Pacific Coast.
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