How did railroad building lead to increased division between the North and South?

A) The South had no interest in building railroads and saw the North as destroying the landscape by initiating them.

B) The South needed railroads to expand markets for their crops, but Northern businessmen refused to invest there.

C) The North was increasingly a manufacturing economy and tied with the West, while the South remained agrarian.

D) The North built railroads to the West to encourage settlement there by those who were against expanding slavery.

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Nolan Orozco

29 June, 18:53

How did railroad building lead to increased division between the North and South?

A) The South had no interest in building railroads and saw the North as destroying the landscape by initiating them.

B) The South needed railroads to expand markets for their crops, but Northern businessmen refused to invest there.

C) The North was increasingly a manufacturing economy and tied with the West, while the South remained agrarian.

D) The North built railroads to the West to encourage settlement there by those who were against expanding slavery.

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Rubi Morse · Answer 1

It's C

The north had the money, the people, and the industrial power to branch out the railroad networks. So following markets and money. The north built networks to the west.

The south in contrast was did not have the capacity to construct as much railroads as the north did so therefore there was less western expansion. As well the south had more interests building canals and shipping product of the states to England.