“take up the white man’s burden— the savage wars of peace— fill full the mouth of famine and bid the sickness cease.” (source: rudyard kipling, “the white man’s burden”) kipling’s poem received its rationale from which of the following nineteenth-century philosophies?
(a) laissez-faire economics.
(b) conservatism.
(c) romanticism.
(d) liberalism.
(e) social darwinism.

in the 1800s, locomotives powered by steam made transportation faster and cheaper. the resulting rapid growth of railroads led to the connection of the atlantic and pacific railroad in oklahoma city in 1897.

in the last years of the century, the improvement of steam-based engines the expansion and growth of railroads. this growth increased when the companies started to build and expand, such as the atlantic and pacific railroad, which connected new mexico with california, and missouri with oklahoma. many of these new networks were built in oklahoma, and these changes transportation henceforward.