Late-Nineteenth-Century Railroad Industry Analysis

Economic changes within this late-nineteenth century boom of industrializations proved, like the politics and society in the time, to have been fitted to the needs of the time and circumstances. In the railroad industry, business had expanded giving leeway to the government making high tariffs on foreign items since those were not the easiest things to transport. The railroads were seen to be the fastest and easy way to transport goods, because having to ship materials from overseas is not as fast and not as easy. These railroads led to a large economic development and helped set America on the path to national railroad systems and national telegraphs inevitably producing a better connection between them and Europe.
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