CumberlandRoad, Linked the Potomac and Ohio rivers by 1818, ErieCanal, From Albany to Buffalo, led to dramatic drop in freight changes, completed in 1825., Twohundred, How many millions of funding in loans did states provide for railways?, Nineteen, How many millions of hectares of land did states provide for railways., PrivateINvestors, Who provided the bulk of the finance for the rialways?, Postroads, The Constitution gave the government the right to establish these across states lines., Eighty, How many thousand miles did post roads span by 1823?, PostOffices, Twenty eight thousand were linked by roads by 1860., Employer, The Federal Postal Service became the largest...... in teh country in the 1850s., AtlanticOcean, The Lake Erie canal connected to the ..... and stretched up to 363 miles, creating hte first important transportation system., steamboat, Aided migration during westward expansion in the early part of the 19th century., NationalUnity, A key motive for Federal promotion of railways was the need to create _________ __________ by uniting East and West., ManifestDestiny, By making migration easier, more territories could be secured, thus fulfilling...., Law, Remote regions were difficult to government, but his enabled ________ enforcement in remote areas., GreatPlains, Railways made possible the transport of US troops to control uprisings in the ___________ __________, economicboom, The railways resulted in an ___________ _______ with trading relations established., PacificRailroadAct, Introduced by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 granting enormous swathes of land., CentralPacific, Railroad that began in Sacramento in California., UnionPacific, Railroad that began in Omaha., Homesteadlife, Railways meant that _________ _________ became easier since people could travel and visit friends and have access to manufactured goods and products., Buffalo, The mass slaughter of these led to conflict with native Americans and destroyed their traditional way of life., OneTenth, What was the cost of rail travel compared with stage or wagon transport., Months, Railways meant transcontinental journey took a matter of days instead of....., Navigablerivers, Railways were important because America had few....___________ ____________, Panic, The first came in 1837, the second in 1873., Fourteen, By 1850, how many thousand kilometres of rail track had been laid?

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