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How did the growth of railroads affect the geographic expansion of the United States?
More people traveled to the east coast to work in factories.
Families lived in the northwestern region of the country for the first time.
People and goods moved westward more easily.
Explorers traveled to Mexico for the first time.
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People and goods moved westward more easily.
Railroads linked eastern cities with the Midwest and West, cutting travel time and cost, enabling mass migration, faster shipment of crops and manufactured goods, and encouraging settlement and economic development across the frontier.
Railroads linked eastern cities with the Midwest and West, cutting travel time and cost, enabling mass migration, faster shipment of crops and manufactured goods, and encouraging settlement and economic development across the frontier.
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