1 - They were the earliest form of commercial transportation.
2 - They are more important to industry today than they were 100 years ago.
3 - They provided an efficient means of transportation during the Age of Big Business.
4 - They were unable to compete in areas that had good water transportation.
2007-05-31 15:44:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
~Given the answer you got from Miss Ginger, I suggest you follow her advice and ignore her answer. What, handcarts, horses and wagons, rafts, ships and barges all came about after railroads? Answer 1. is ludicrous.
Answer 2 is questionable what with the advent of trucks, the interstate highway system and container ships. Cost is also a factor which must be taken into account, as well as the starting point and destination of the goods being shipped.
Answer 3 would depend on how you define the Age of Big Business and how you define 'efficient'. Given the era to which the term applies, what other means of transportation were available.
Answer 4 requires a cost analysis as well as what qualifies as "good" water transportation. Your text (or a little common sense) should help with that. For instance, Is a barge on the Platte in the summer a good mode of water transportation, or would a train do the job better?
Bee Gee claims to have taught history for 15 years. Think about that. Is a teacher going to help you cheat on your homework? And if so, does he really believe it would be cheaper to send a few hundred tons of milled and bagged wheat from Buffalo to Cleveland by filling a few dozen boxcars when the entire load will fit on a single Lakes freighter with room to spare? Or that trains were not at least as important to the miners in Wyoming and Nevada in 1900 than they are today? And he assumes the tracks were laid conveniently to the areas in which transportation was needed. Yeah, the factories would have been built near the railroads, and with the right bribes, tracks would have been laid to pre-existing source-points, but that doesn't do much good if there are no tracks going to the destination.
It is a poor question because it leaves too much room for interpretation and you have either no right answers or 3 of them.
2007-05-31 16:07:43 · answer #1 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best answer is #3: They provided an efficient means of transportation during the Age of Big Business.
2007-05-31 15:56:42 · answer #2 · answered by BeeGee 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Number One. They were of course the newest and most efficient mode of transportation to move goods across the country. Without the railroads, America may never have had the industrialization revolution. The rails allowed for the massive transit of all kinds of goods with the trans-continental lines.
Wikipedia and your school text book has all of the answers...why not study yourself??
2007-05-31 15:53:28 · answer #3 · answered by LiaChien 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
3 - They provided an efficient means of transportation during the Age of Big Business.
2016-02-10 08:12:27 · answer #4 · answered by Venite 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
answer is number #3
2015-12-02 12:17:18 · answer #5 · answered by STEVEN 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
5. Do your own homework.
2007-06-02 06:30:33 · answer #6 · answered by dar 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋