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throughout history the united states goverment has taken various action address problems with economy. the united states ran into alot of economy problems with war debts and other economy problems. the united states got into alot of wars which cause war debts in the u.s. . the impact on the war debts is it really hurt u.s people and started a paying back system back in 1917 building the transcontinental railroad circumstance that led to the action people needed a faster way trade things and travel faster. Impacted of this action on the economy cost alot of money to have people make it and took a very long time to build. that railroad was alot of money that the untied states had to spend. railroads took the wild out the west

Like a skilled magician, the railroads of the 19 th century had transformed America in ways that awed and dazzled onlookers. “The iron arms” of the railroad, observed Charles and Henry Adams in 1871, “have been stretched out in every direction; nothing has escaped their reach, and the most firmly established institutions of man have proved under their influence as plastic as clay.” Perhaps in no other part of the United States was the power of railroads to transform as well as create afresh more visible than in its wildest West (beginning with the first transcontinental railroad in 1869). “Railroads have been built, and the means of water communication have been extended, the result of which already has been the redemption and occupation of rich areas from the primitive wilderness,” boasted an 1883 publication devoted to settlement of the Pacific Northwest. “Within the brief time since these enterprises began, the advancement of the country has been everywhere apparent, and what has been already accomplished is simply wonderful.”
Railroads of the West excelled at creating industrial order where no pattern of organization existed apart from nature, of being agents of change that essentially tamed the frontier. Consider, for example, how surveyors used precisely calibrated instruments to mathematically quantify the West as never before in terms of curvature, elevation and distance as they staked out prospective railroad lines. The process of transforming the West continued, and even accelerated, once actual railroad operations began. Approximation was no longer good enough in the West the railroads made. Something seemingly so simple as the space between the rails could not vary by more than a fraction of an inch, or the locomotives and cars would derail. Over time, and with occasional prodding from the federal and state regulators, everything from paper thickness to envelope sizes in company offices was standardized within the railroad industry.