The efficient and easy transportation of raw materials and finished goods was an important reason that railroad encouraged. At present, in the United States of America (USA), around 7000 railroads are active which carries the raw material and good to the different states and places of the country.
In the United States of America, on that date of 28th February, 1827, the Baltimore and Ohio railroads became the first railways for commercial transportation of passengers and goods.
C.) It is a secret route that slaves took to escape from Southern slave states to the North. Even though Harriet Tubman started this, it wasn't to help slaves become free it was to help them escape so it's C
Any choices? If there inst then it would be because they had a source of water and that helped expand territory
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A: direct quotations, because they come directly from the text.