What was often used to pay for the costs of new railroad lines? Confederate currency
stocks and bonds
bartered goods
gold bars

Large railroads offered discounts called rebates to their biggest customers. Smaller railroads that could not match these prices were often forced out of business. Giving discounts to big customers meant higher rates for other customers who shipped small loads

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

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