2.1 The American Frontier Vocab Q

Created a National market providing farmers access to distant markets, and helped Americans move

Transcontinental Railroad is completed on May 10, 1869

By raising the consumer price of agricultural products

By increasing the variety of locally grown crops

By providing farmers with affordable access to distant markets

By encouraging farmers to form the first agricultural cooperatives

By providing people with access to essential goods

By raising money to build factories along the routes

By giving funds to local leaders to build schools

By establishing military forts along the routes

The railroad contributed to the rapid settlement and growth of towns in the West.

The railroad caused a rapid decline in agriculture and mining in the West.

The railroad contributed to population growth and increased sharecropping in the East.

The railroad prompted Congress to buy land and create national parks in the East.