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How did new railroads and improvements in
railway technology help spur economic growth?

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Step-by-step explanation:

Railways and improvements in railway technology have helped economic growth by having a faster way of transporting goods, lowering production costs, creating domestic markets, a model for those businesses, and stimulating growth for other businesses.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Buiding a railroad :

- Shortened distances

- it made travel faster and safer from the US East coast to the West coast

- it reduced time needed to move merchandises and other good, thus increasing trade

- It allowed to improve communication between distant regions.

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