Railroads played in extremely important part in developing the west what are two specific ways that railroads affected growing areas in Washington ? How were industries impacted

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Railroads played a huge role in the development of western cities, Washington included. I'm Washington, before the railroads, travel between America's coasts by land or by sailing, took months.

In 1864, Congress approved the development of the northern Pacific railroad and awarded grants and lands to builders. In 1872, Seattle offered the northern Pacific, acres of land and bonds to continue developing the railroad.

The building of the transcontinental railroad opened up the west coast to a very fast-paced development. With its completion, travel time was cut from months to weeks. The economic impact of connecting two American coasts was enormous and industries flourished.

here are some events that to cause increased conflict between the north and south

1) mexican cession- gaining modern day california, utah, arizona, and new mexico from mexico. caused southern and northern politicians to fight over whether or not there would be slavery in these newly acquired territories.

2) uncle tom's cabin- this famous book described the cruelty of slavery in the south during the antebellum period, causing more northerners to support abolition and southerners to resent the book as they felt it unfairly depicted southern society.

3) kansas- nebraska act- disagreements over whether or not kansas and nebraska would be free or slave states caused issues between northern and southern politicians in congress.

4) bleeding kansas- this fighting took place in kansas after congress allowed this territory to vote on whether or not they would have slavery. citizens were killed and buildings were destroyed during this fighting.