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Railroads stimulated the economy in many ways. First of all it gave people jobs on the railroad industry.

That all I have so far so can someone please help me finish it out or fix it or whatever you have to do please??

2007-03-06 13:39:59 · 8 answers · asked by Melanie 2 in Arts & Humanities History

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it gave people jobs like you said.
it allowed the transportation of goods. during the 19th century, the transcontinental railroad was created and thru this there was a major cattle exploison. meaning there was mass transportation of cattle, food to be canned and sold. it allowed people to establish new homes which would have their own individual sector that was part of hte economy which would to an extent regulate the economy. so you'd have new entrreprenurial bussinesses popping up everywhere.

2007-03-06 13:47:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

In their infancy in the nineteenth century, railroads entirely altered life and stimulated the economy by allowing the swift transport of goods and people between cities; they soon connected the major cities and small towns of the United States (and eventually the world). Railroads made possible facile travel between the East and West Coasts of America when the only alternative was a treacherous and tedious ocean voyage around the Horn of South America. In truth, the railroads completely changed the economy of the U.S. from one which was based upon agriculture to one which was centered upon manufacturing, thus contributing immensely to the Industrial Revolution and the surge in the economy that was directly effected by it...

2007-03-06 13:59:25 · answer #2 · answered by Lynci 7 · 0 0

It was able to spread industry throughout the country and was able to ship goods to farther areas than a traditional horse and wagon could. Industry was able to go only as far as it was able to ship it's goods cheaply and safely by wagon. Now that goods could be shipped farther and more safely by train, industry was able to spread out. These industries as well as the railroad had ancillary industries that sprung up to support them like restaurants, hotels, saloons, etc. Places like restaurants needed supplies like food, table clothes, dinnerware and workers who would eventually settle nearby and start families that would require all sorts of things that the railroad would need to supply.

2007-03-06 13:48:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

At the time of their development, they allowed for easier transportation. Also, they were a way for business to spread from the eastern part of the country to the unsurveyed West.

Elaborate on those points, and you'll be fine.

2007-03-06 13:48:43 · answer #4 · answered by true_wahoo 3 · 0 0

Railroads

"The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour.... A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore , dine at Philadelphia , and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi , as predicted years ago."

This quote by Oliver Evans, a famous American inventor during the Industrial Revolution, illustrates the great change that was occurring all around the world in terms of railway, leaving great hopes for the future.

Timeline

1630 – Beaumont in England designs railways where horses pulled carts and wagons on heavy planks

1753 – First steam engine in Britain – spreads to the American colonies within the same year

1755 – Frst steam engine established that can pump water from a mine ]

1758 – The oldest railway in the world is built – the Middleton Railway in Leeds , Britain

1769 – In France , Nicholas Cygnot builds a steam carriage

1774 – James Watt builds the first steam engine

1776 – Instead of using wood, iron is used to build an English tram road.

1784 – Murdoch, a steam engine model of Watt, speeds up to 6 to 8 miles per hour

1789 – The first wagon with flanged wheels is designed by William Jessup

1800 – In America , Oliver Evans expands on Watt's model, and makes a successful “non- condensing high pressure steam engine”

1804 – The train building industry did indeed have an impact on other industries, as Oliver Evans expands the steam train to a stem powered boat in America

1804 – The actual first railroad engine is built by Leeds in England ; Richard Threvthickof Cornwall in Great Britain builds a 40 psi steam locomotive for the Welsh Penydarran Railroad

1807 - First ever passenger railroad from Swansea to Mubles on March 25 th

1812 – The first actual stable, commercially successful railway is built in the form of the Middleton Railway

1813 – Advances in the railroad locomotive : William Hedley of England builds a 50 psi loco, which could bear a load equal to 10 horses.

1824 – The 1 st locomotive workshop is built in New Castle , England , showing the railroads popularity.

1825 – Stephenson builds an 8 – ton Locomotion No. 1, for the Stockton and Darligton railroad. Cold pull 90 tons at 15 mph. Planned with route, train, tracks, material, etc. Huge development from before rails.

1826 – English developments spread as railroads are established – not very efficiently, but exist nonetheless in America , France , Germany and India .

Effects of Railroads

Because of railroads, people were encouraged more than ever to move to cities as opposed to staying in the country. People came to cities by rail to look for work. However, jobs were also created outside the cities: work in transport – of resources (such as coal), goods, and people came into higher demand, as did mining for the coal that fed the steam-powered engines' furnaces. Ideas also travelled by railways, and inventions and techniques could spread all around Europe , and in turn, the world. Railways carried mail, provisions for soldiers at war, shipments of farm crops, and traveling entrepreneurs as well as down-and-outs. Railways posed an example of what success newer models and inventions could bring about, thus motivating those who watched hem speed across the plains.

Railroads affected the economy by giving it a boost, since a few wealthy people invested in railroads in hopes of profit. This initial capital propelled the industry to spread, and connect people and places who had heretofore been isolated. Farmers could ship their grain to distant markets, ordinary people had greater mobility between cities; producers, buyers, and sellers could, in the accelerative spirit of the Industrial Revolution, achieve all their transactions faster, and an entirely new industry emerged, augmenting local, national, and international markets significantly and propelling mercntilism. Railroad companies would give rise to the modern business structure as well as much political residue, such as trust legislation and, much later, well-known travelling campaigns. As the first step toward a closer-knit world, the railroad was one of the most significant industries to develop.

Sources

Houk , Randy . "Railway history." Railroads Timeline . 26 Dec. 2005 < http://www.sdrm.org/history/timeline/ >.

"Railway history." James Watt . 26 Dec. 2005 < http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCwatt.htm >.

Poole , Keith T. “Railroads: the First Big Business.” 1999. December 2 2005 . < http://voteview.com/rtopic4c.htm >

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2007-03-10 05:37:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

They made it cheaper and faster to get goods from one place to the next.

2016-03-16 06:17:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It gave new ways of transporting good. This could urge others to sell good that they were never able to ship..maybe..lol. ummm yea.

2007-03-06 13:48:47 · answer #7 · answered by Kris 3 · 0 0

im not sure but i think it could of let industries become bigger by allowing them to be able to ship supplies faster easer and cheaper i dont know i dont know anything

2007-03-06 13:44:20 · answer #8 · answered by SoccerBabe01 2 · 1 1

by enabling goods and people to be sent greater distances in less time than by horse wagon

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2007-03-06 13:47:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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