The Trans-Adlantic Railroad
'Assess the impact of the development of communications on the settlement of the West'.
A vital factor in the communicational development of the West was due to the completion of the Trans-Adlantic Railroad, of which was completed in 1869. The railroad created a new leash of exsistance in American, how the once baron, urban land, now to be industrialized and inhabited by all those who seek a new life. The Railroad however spelt disaster for the Native American Indian Tribes, whose lives were to be devastated by the Railroad's arrival, and pushed to the boundaries of extinction. The railroad provided a cheaper and faster mode of transportation for people and their belongings. No longer would seeking immigrants die through a long ardeous …show more content…
Yet an invention by Samuel Morse the 'Telegraph' furthermore assisted in the communications development of the West. Socially the Impact of the railroad had a huge affect. It did not only allow families to reunite after years of seperation, cutting down the travel time from 6months to 7days via rail. Though the most important factor of the railroad was how it motivated people to 'risk it', to seek a new life, in just 7 days was an astounding acknowledgement, and so many did infact flee in their thousands to the American …show more content…
The closeness of the American; Asian markets lowered the cost of transportation of goods, saving them from having to sail all around the Southern tip of South America, and thus portraying a shorter space of time, this resulted in the efficieny of buisnesses improving. Yet the telegraph allowed an immediate response to the change in market, keeping all Eastern and Western American's up to date with the lastest economic, or even agricultural changes. The telegraph allowed the changes in stocks and shares to be instantaneous to all American's over the continent, thus generating America into a 'boom
A vital factor in the communicational development of the West was due to the completion of the Trans-Adlantic Railroad, of which was completed in 1869. The railroad created a new leash of exsistance in American, how the once baron, urban land, now to be industrialized and inhabited by all those who seek a new life. The Railroad however spelt disaster for the Native American Indian Tribes, whose lives were to be devastated by the Railroad's arrival, and pushed to the boundaries of extinction. The railroad provided a cheaper and faster mode of transportation for people and their belongings. No longer would seeking immigrants die through a long ardeous …show more content…
Yet an invention by Samuel Morse the 'Telegraph' furthermore assisted in the communications development of the West. Socially the Impact of the railroad had a huge affect. It did not only allow families to reunite after years of seperation, cutting down the travel time from 6months to 7days via rail. Though the most important factor of the railroad was how it motivated people to 'risk it', to seek a new life, in just 7 days was an astounding acknowledgement, and so many did infact flee in their thousands to the American …show more content…
The closeness of the American; Asian markets lowered the cost of transportation of goods, saving them from having to sail all around the Southern tip of South America, and thus portraying a shorter space of time, this resulted in the efficieny of buisnesses improving. Yet the telegraph allowed an immediate response to the change in market, keeping all Eastern and Western American's up to date with the lastest economic, or even agricultural changes. The telegraph allowed the changes in stocks and shares to be instantaneous to all American's over the continent, thus generating America into a 'boom