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How did the growth of railroads affect the geographic expansion of the United States?
Explorers traveled to Mexico for the first time.
People and goods moved westward more easily.
More people traveled to the east coast to work in factories.
Families lived in the northwestern region of the country for the first time.
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People and goods moved westward more easily.
Railroads connected the East and West, cut travel time and costs, opened new markets, and made settlement, mining, and agriculture in the West much more practical (e.g., Transcontinental Railroad, 1869).
Railroads connected the East and West, cut travel time and costs, opened new markets, and made settlement, mining, and agriculture in the West much more practical (e.g., Transcontinental Railroad, 1869).
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