Document-Based Question: The Impact of Railroads on New York State in the 1800s


Teacher Guide, page III
Description: Students learn how railroads began to overtake the Erie Canal in importance in the mid-1800s, were vital to the Civil War, connected all major cities in New York State, and promoted the growth of other cities and towns by the 1870s.

Publication date: July 2000

Number of pages: 19 total (cover page – 1; teacher guide – 6; student DBQ – 5; primary source documents – 7)

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