What can you infer about how traveling changed America? Support your inference with evidence from the text and your own knowledge. Please write your answer in complete sentences.

America is a very large country, the fourth largest in the world by land area, and the third most populated. Due to its wider than long shape and its extension that reaches the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, we find distances of up to 2,734 miles, like the one between Miami and Seattle.

Due to this situation, in the past it was extremely difficult to connect the different regions of the nation with each other: there were not enough river channels to reach the entire country, and the distances to be covered by land were almost impossible to face, which made it even necessary the use of bioceanic passages like the Strait of Magellan to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast. Thus, with the development of different means of transport, such as railways and airplanes, or engineering developments, such as canals, travel times between the different points of our enormous nation were shortened, facilitating the interconnection of these regions with each other. and contributing to the construction of a more homogeneous national identity.