In what ways did the expanding railroad industry affect other industries in the late nineteenth century? How did it affect other aspects of American life?

500 books can be produced by one man and a printing press within 5 months, while a copyist can only produce one in the same amount of time

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.