American Homestead
What was the most significant contribution ?
What was the most significant contribution of the railroad to late-nineteenth-century industrializing America?
A.It provided employment for unemployed freedmen.
B.It went where canals and rivers didn't go.
C.It ended isolated, self-sufficient "island communities" and made possible a national market.
D.It made travel faster, safer, and more comfortable.
E.It pushed Native Americans onto reservations and provided homesteads for farmers.
Purely in the context of industrialization, I'd have to go with B, since railroads provided access to inland deposits of raw materials including fuels such as coal and oil, as well as minerals ranging from copper and iron to borax that otherwise required horse-drawn freight transport to reach those canals and rivers.
This allowed the pace of production to proceed rapidly, as different industries fed each other.
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