United States train travel had changed dramatically by this time, since the transcontinental railroad had been completed, which stretched all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Answer:
Gutenberg's printing press
Explanation:
They could now spread the news on paper with a printing press.
Well as I'm sure you know we live in a society greatly impacted by technology and because so everything important usually ends up on the internet, the dissemination of news helps activists and the regular joe, educate themselves. But as in a political revolution starting I suppose dissemination would make them more educated in the debate, and allow them to spread there message.
Answer: It resisted new ideas from Europe.
Congress would find it difficult to go to war against another country, because there was no national army or navy to begin with. As well, it did not have the power to enforce laws or tax, so it wouldn't have been able to raise money for a war either.