Why were railroads the catalyst for industrial and commercial growth in the u. s. in the late 1800s

rail roads were  way to move goods and raw martial on mass. rails roads could move supply faster and over a longer distance than using wagons or boats witch were limited on were they can go.  causing an industrial boom.

The building of railroads was a vital step to connect the land of vast country. It helped to reach the raw material from the rural area to the industrial area. it also saved time and hard labor, otherwise needed for it. The massive construction of railroads boosts the coal, iron and steel industries of the United States. Further, land grants by the Government enhanced the pace of production.

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the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.