The Westward expansion skyrocketed yet again, eventually allowing settlers to move even past the Mississippi river while still being directly connected to the eastern shore. We call the dramatic increase in land and population manifest destiny, claiming that it was our right to be able to expand across all of America. The railroad heavily encouraged the agriculture to move further west due to the richer soil their and cheaper methods of transporting the produce. It provided jobs for immigrations to work, laying down tracks, completed the needs for transportation, by creating a high speed method of traveling directly between the east and west that could operate year-round. The railroads could easily carry massive amounts of goods or people from the east to the west, or vice-versa, quite literally binding the two
The Westward expansion skyrocketed yet again, eventually allowing settlers to move even past the Mississippi river while still being directly connected to the eastern shore. We call the dramatic increase in land and population manifest destiny, claiming that it was our right to be able to expand across all of America. The railroad heavily encouraged the agriculture to move further west due to the richer soil their and cheaper methods of transporting the produce. It provided jobs for immigrations to work, laying down tracks, completed the needs for transportation, by creating a high speed method of traveling directly between the east and west that could operate year-round. The railroads could easily carry massive amounts of goods or people from the east to the west, or vice-versa, quite literally binding the two