Question

By the 1850s, railroads had begun to receive encouragement from the federal government in the form of:

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Without railroads, the U.S. Industrial Revolution (roughly the last twenty years of the nineteenth century, when the nation changed from an agricultural to an industrial economy) could never have happened. The railroad was the pioneer of big business, and it became an almost immediate symbol of industrialization in the United States. Every American, regardless of income or social class, could identify with the railroad. Since around 1860, the railroad was the center of the national market, transporting not only goods but also people and information. Restrictions on transportation that had existed prior to the American Civil War (1861–65), such as weather conditions and geographical distance, no longer factored into trade and commerce.