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. Chandler argues that the railroad was America's first big business and created new patterns of economic and business activity and new institutional forms for business. This is perhaps the real contribution of the railroads to business history, says Chandler, along with the changes the railroad brought to business as a whole and to migration patterns in the New World. Because of the railroad, more and more people began moving into previously uninhabited regions of the vast territories of

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