For the most part, trading and sending some supplies to Britain; they tried to not get involved and remain neutral. What the US was doing was mainly invading Germany.
It was between the United States and Republican France
Answer:
Beginning in the early 1870s, railroad construction in the United States increased dramatically. ... Between 1871 and 1900, another 170,000 miles were added to the nation's growing railroad system. Much of the growth can be attributed to the building of the transcontinental railroads.
Explanation:
The Civil War was the defining event for nineteenth-century America, and railroads played an important role in the conflict. As the North industrialized rapidly between 1820 and 1860, railroads helped create --and prospered from -- the rise of factory production and diversified large-scale agriculture.
Mnay American believed C. it was their manifest destiny :)