In the mid to late 1800s, the US government granted land to railroad companies to expand their networks. What is another way that railroad companies used the land?
They mined the land for coal and other natural resources.
They sold the land to farmers and ranchers.
They built factories along the rail lines.
They created land preservations in order to protect the environment.

1. between 1754 and 1763

2. a land bridge between siberia and alaska that was exposed during the most recent ice age when the waters of the bering strait receded.

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explanation:

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.