What was one advantage that cities offered businesses and industrialists?

A.

clean air

B.

plentiful land

C.

efficient sewers

D.

transportation networks

The fourt answer is correct (D).

The cities provided entrepreneurs and industrialists with an adequate infrastructure for the disposal of products to ports and other cities.

The US has had an extensive process of railroad mesh development. In the first decade of the twentieth century, the United States already had approximately 200,000 kilometers of railroad lines to carry cargo and people. Investment increased when in 1962 President Abraham Lincoln instituted the Pacific Rail Act that allowed the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad, which connected the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.

The US has developed its rail network early, which was very important given the physical characteristics of the country, which is very large. The railways allowed the production to flow to the domestic market and to the export, to the ports, being essential for the rapid development of the country. Cities became connected and the supply of capital goods, inputs and food from the railroads, which made possible the industrialization of cities.

Transportation networks