Hello there.
<span>The building of the railroads impacted the economy and new business practices in the late 1800s, which of these is NOT one of those impacts?
</span><span>a. new industries emerged, such as lumber, coal, and steel
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Answer is: <span>b.a series of federal land grants.
</span><span>Congress passed a law allowing people to claim public land and convert it to private property through homesteading.
</span>The Great Plains <span>is the broad expanse of flat land</span><span> that lies west of the </span>Mississippi River tallgrass prairie<span> states and east of the </span>Rocky Mountains<span> in the United States and Canada. </span>
