What were the impacts of the transcontinental railroad?<span>Among the many positive effects of the transcontinental railroad are the following improvements: faster and safer transportation from coast to coast, boosts in international and intercontinental trade, faster spreading of ideas and expansion of the United States into areas not previously settled.</span>
The main way in which the ideas of the Enlightenment and increasing commercial development led to the rapid increase in the size of the British
<span>The European Economic Community was formed in 1957 with just six countries. Three more were added in 1973, another in 1981, and two more in 1986. So by 1993 there were 12 countries part of the EEC; there are 28 now.</span>
