Define consolidation and explain how the railroad consolidated. Please answer, I will give Brainliest!

The 1880's and 1890's were year of consolidation in the American railroads. They were the years of the great financiers such Jay Gould and JP Morgan, made fortunes buying and selling railroad stocks. Most of all however, they were the years that the rails became the backbone of American Commerce. You could now ship anything anywhere in the United States is a matter of days.. No longer was a producer limited to selling products in his city or even in his region, but the United States had become one national market.

It was also the beginning of the age of great name trains.

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boundary is what it refers to hope this

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since most of current immigration into the u.s., both legal and illegal, is coming from latin america. it would be very difficult to imagine or rationalize a country my fellow citizens are trying desperately to flee into, would pose a threat to my prosperity or freedom. since the u.s. has a long history of intervention, but no record of permanent occupation, i would not feel oppression is the main objective.  

the largest free trade nation, along with the largest gdp in the world wanting to expand it's economic policy on us, and including us, could only be positive. the u.s. government has no interest in, or way of simply forcing american culture on us. and has no track record of it. other nations that adopted american social culture, or "americanization" did so voluntarily, mainly through the choice of allowing american businesses and u.s. citizens to come into their nations, as free operatives.