Expansion of the Railroads

Explain how the Transcontinental Railroad helped America reach the goal of Manifest Destiny.

1830

The Transcontinental Railroad helped America achieve manifest destiny by giving America a way fast travel and transportation of people and goods. Manifest destiny was the belief that Americans were divinely intended to control the whole U.S. These two ideas worked hand in hand achieving the Transcontinental railroad meant achieving manifest destiny.

Describe multiple ways the American public and the railroad companies benefited from the expansion of the railroad across America.

1887

Railroad companies were given enormous economic incentives for railroads the government offered enormous loans to companies who were willing to assume the risk. The public benefited from railroads having the ability to travel at cheap prices.