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Cover image for book Stop that Train, I Want to Get on! : The Importance of Railroads in the US Mid-1800s | Grade 5 Social Studies | Children's American History

Stop that Train, I Want to Get on! : The Importance of Railroads in the US Mid-1800s | Grade 5 Social Studies | Children's American History

By:Baby Professor
Publisher:Speedy Publishing LLC
Print ISBN:9781541981669
eText ISBN:9781541982178
Edition:0
Copyright:2022
Format:Page Fidelity

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After the Louisiana Purchase, the land size of the United States doubled! Goods that were being produced in one part of the country need to get to the other part the soonest possible time. By the 1830s, the steam engine was introduced and it cemented the importance of railroads. Read about the first railroads in the US and the Transcontinental Railroad that linked the east to the west.