Explain how land grants accelerated the development of the railroad system in the United States.

A Land grant is made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service.  The Land grants accelerated the development of the railroad sytem by the land grant basically being a contract for labor, Therefore making others have to work on the railroad system, in return the more people the faster the railroad gets built. The faster the railroad gets built more money is being made and with that being said the more money being made means more railroads for the better ment of the Unites States. Thefore making traveling cargo much easier and just traveling in general eaiser.  

Explanation:

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.