Uncovering the Tracks

      The business involved with the newly founded railroads, engrossed many individual networks with the competitive impulse to retain control in areas that needed to be connected by multiple networks.  It took a while to form a more unionized system, but ended up being a transportation and communication phenomenon for all of the country to be apart of.  Traveling across the country, sending goods, and delivering mail never even occurred in the minds of many people. 

      The development of the railroads was itself a matter of business expansion on a large scale, beginning with the shorter tracks and ending with vast networks of tracks built as a union, consisting of individual networks, which nurtured towns first and soon the cities all along their maximum length.  This made it  made it possible to promote business expansion and expand the travels from local companies into regional and national corporations.  This made it ideal for the branches of a central business to expand their range of work.  The force that this system provided played an important role with the opening of the West, which lead to the development of the United States as a unified social and political human race.  

      Once the Civil War came to an end, the nation was no longer divided, which created the opportunity to escalate the commerce to its full potential.  The goods from asia and the produce and raw materials from the West were shipped to the East.  Soon the West learned the style that allowed their manufactured products to be shipped to the East once more people moved to the West, for this reason alone.  

How Railroads changed America

      The discovery of the Railroad system is considered to be the innovative technology that developed the foundation for such a remarkable economy in a variety of systems.  It seemed to be implausible for the societies that lived in the times before the creation of the tracks, to even comprehend the advantages that such means of transportation would help such diverse resources flourish.  The scrutiny of the outcome involving so many different possibilities, would only come to help these systems cope with the more demanding increase for modern support.

      In 1862, Congress passed a bill that called for to railroad companies to build a railroad that spread across the whole continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.  This railroad was meant to promote the growth of settlements in the Western United States.  Before there was any signs of railroads, people had to travel on horseback or in wagons.  

      The main focus of this blog is to concentrate on what the expansion of railroads have done to help develop the profound economic, social, and political structures of modern America.