2. According to your notes, the first Railroad linked the East and the West coasts. Captionless Image
Continental
40,000 miles of track
Transcontinental
Train

The north american colonies experienced a steady increase in population since the first settlement in jamestown in 1607. by 1775, the colonies' population was around 2,500,000, and most of the colonists lived east of the allegheny mountains. how did geography influence the settlement of america's first colonies?