Part one of term paper
Railroads were born in England, a country of dense population, short distances, and large financial resources. In England problems were very different from those in America, which in the early 1800s was a nation of great distances, sparse population, and limited capital. Americans had to learn to build railroads for their own country by actua ...

Part two of term paper
... of the Great Lakes or on the tributaries of the Mississippi. Meanwhile other lines had started from west of the mountains, and by the mid-1850s Chicago, Ill.; St. Louis, Mo.; and Memphis, Tenn., were connected with the East. Still other lines were stretching westward beyond the Mississippi. An international route connected New England and Montreal, Que., and another one crossed southern Ontario between Niagara, N.Y., and the Detroit River. During the 1850s north-south routes were developed bo ...