The ocean floor or seabed can be divided into three major regions: the continental margins, abyssal plains, and mid-ocean ridges.
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A biggie: the transcontinental railroad. Because it would economically improve wherever it was, both the North and the South competed for the railroad to be in their respective territory, evidenced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Gadsen Purchase and induction of California as a free state in 1860.
In addition: people could get land cheap because it was abundant and might leave to start afresh economically.
There's other stuff I can't remember as clearly, but there's a little and I hope it helps :)
I'd have to say gas because it usually doesn't change at all