Multiple Choice
One negative byproduct of railroad construction in the mid-1900s was
A) crooked practices by those more interested in making money than the development of the rail lines.
B) the shortage of the necessary natural resources such as iron and steel.
C) the refusal of Congress to approve federal land grants.
D) the decrease in private funding after the federal government began providing money for construction.
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