The Impact of the Transcontinental Rail Road

The impacts of the transcontinental rail road where, the world grew smaller, a competing canal, surging interstate trade, improved public discourse,a disaster for Native Americans, and a web of rails. The world grew smaller because it linked the east coast and the west coast, and people and cargo didn't have to take the treacherous routes across the ocean and panama canal, also you could make a trip across North America in a week. Competing canal, workers halfway across the world consummated their own monumental feat of engineering Egypt's Suez canal that linked Asia and India to Europe. Surging interstate trade, within 10 years of completion, the rail road shipped 50 million worth of freight coast to coast every year,just as it opened shipping in Asia it brought product of eastern industry past the Mississippi. Improved public discourse, Americans could travel the country in matter of days see the country from the windows of the train, conversations begun in the east and ended in the west, books written in San Francisco found home on New York shelves in a matter of days. Disaster for Native Americans, encroaching white society the unstoppable force which would force Indians into reservations within decades. Web of rails, the transcontinental railroad did not long remain the sole venue of travel through America's center, lines spider webbed outward from its branch points conveying north and south.