How do you think the money received by railroads from land grants contributed to westward expansion.

if there is a way to go somewhere people will go there, they wanted to start economies and businesses and the best way to do that was to go somewhere no one had gone yet, and now that railroads had a reason to build that way it meant that people could also start to use those railroads to travel.

first industrial revolution - the first wave of the industrial revolution lasted from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s. it industrialized the manufacture of textiles and began the move of production from homes to factories. steam power and the cotton gin played an important role in this period.