Why was the development of towns economically important?

Before the industrialization towns sprung along trade routes. Centers of trade would be big and rich towns that had many markets and many merchants would pass there and get a chance to rest there and sell or buy goods. The richer the trade route was the bigger and richer the town would be. Many people would come to live there and even work there.

in the 1800s, locomotives powered by steam made transportation faster and cheaper. the resulting rapid growth of railroads led to the connection of the atlantic and pacific railroad in oklahoma city in 1897.

in the last years of the century, the improvement of steam-based engines the expansion and growth of railroads. this growth increased when the companies started to build and expand, such as the atlantic and pacific railroad, which connected new mexico with california, and missouri with oklahoma. many of these new networks were built in oklahoma, and these changes transportation henceforward.

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