How did railroad expansion affect the growth of major urban centers?
New networks were built in the rural West.
Traveling to and from cities became easier.
Traveling between the North and the South became easier.
New networks linked Canadian and US cities.

Which was not a primary goal of reconstruction

As the coach of the u.s. olympic cycling team, i can state without question that the swedish and french teams were using illegal steroids. how else could they have beaten us so badly in the last competition? the u.s. team trained much harder and was much more skilled than our opponents. we only lost because a few teams cheated.

What happened as agriculture became entrenched in the south ?