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Oh Okay A pusher is more on the map This

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thing right here receive the railroad right there Yeah that's

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okay The question the expansion of the rail road led

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to new markets which led to an increase in the

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production of goods What else contributed to this trend Okay

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Well by using a vast array of new technologies in

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production factories were able to produce more goods than ever

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before And the steady influx of immigrants provided as many

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workers as the factories could use Well the combination of

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a large workforce and developing technology improved factory production and

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by extension the role companies had in stimulating the railroad

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market Will railroads would never have expanded so far if

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all they ever did was take people from place to

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place People didn't actually move around all that often they

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tend to go to one place and just stay there

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a while Those sedentary people did however require manufactured goods

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to be shipped to them and the railroads made a

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fortune in shipping those goods across the country Answers be

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innovative technologies and a large labor force allowed companies produced

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materials at a rate far surpassing what was previously possible

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and the loser bowl well Monopolies allowed companies to increase

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prices and in fact stifled innovation instead of encouraging it

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Sort of While there was an increase in the availability

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of raw goods they overwhelmingly came from the rest of

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the United States and flowed into the North instead of

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out of it So you go to sea And unfortunately

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for workers there was no increase in wages At least

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for a while Workers were often exploited and wages actually

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decreased in this time period So yeah a long time

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for unions I really made an impact for the working 00:01:41.02 --> [endTime] man So that's it The answer is B

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