Natural+Resources-rindi

====Many of America's resources were located in the west. Products that were found here included timber, coal, iron, and copper. This was convenient because the U.S. now didn't have to inport these products and they became cheaper. The settlement of this region helped accelerate industrialization, as well as the trancontinental railroad. Railroads took the settlers and miners to the west and carried resources back to factories in the East.====