History, 01.07.2019 04:40 Kangarue27

How did the railroads revolutionize industry and business in the late 1800s?

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Prior to the building of railroads in the USA, starting in the 1830's with the Baltimore & Ohio railway, things such as letters, food, and goods would take months, or even a year, to be moved around the nation from the east coast to the west coast. However, railroads around Baltimore, New York City and along the east coast quickly proved that they were the way forward for the world. They moved goods much quicker, and once a connection from east to west was established transit time would only take 10 days. It was labour intensive, but it had good pay, and they benefited the USA greatly, as railroads also had throughout Europe. Hell in Europe railroads were even winning wars because they could quickly move troops and supplies. In the American Civil Warm, both sides utilized the railways to move troops and supplies and often would raid the enemy railway lines because they were vital for the war effort.

Railroads change the history of US transport and industrialism forever, as has been the case on almost every corner of the globe.

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after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.