How did the completion of the transcontinental railroad contribute to the settlement of
west?
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g
by providing people with access to essential goods
by raising money to build factories along the routes
by giving funds to local leaders to build schools
by establishing military forts along the routes

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.