kansas city state map Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/kansas-city-state-map Tue, 17 May 2016 14:49:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Kansas Subway Map http://toursmaps.com/kansas-subway-map.html http://toursmaps.com/kansas-subway-map.html#respond Thu, 19 May 2016 18:30:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=204256 The Period of Railroads Europe and the United States had a voracious appetite for the products from Kansas’s plains. The acquisition of Kansas’s goods and their movement to urban markets became ever more important. In 1862 President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Bill to encourage the building of a transcontinental railroad as well as many regional rail connections.8 Although the Civil War delayed construction, rail companies were chartered and received federal land grants for every mile of rail built. The railroads lowered costs of transportation, established rail ports for acquisition and shipment of goods, and opened land for colonization.9 As

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