The Mississippi River, linked as it is to the Red, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee rivers, comprises the largest interconnected network of navigable rivers in the world. This gives the US a huge opportunity for transportation, due to the reason that transportation is almost three times cheaper on water than on land, this not only a cheap cost, but it also gives the US the opportunity to travel different places to trade and improve.
The Mississippi River allowed US to trade with other country to get a vary of different resources that they lack in, with a variety of resources, when one of the resources have a problem, it would not be detrimental since there is other resources for back up.
Other countries have to use lots of time to build up architectures for railroads to make a good foundation. Geography gave the US a almost perfect system with almost no cost. The geography in US did not make them destroy parts of the country’s natural habitats. In brazil, they have to cut trees, that would lead to deforestation, but if they don’t they would not be able to trade from the northern and southern parts of brazil. The additional infrastructure that the US needed is like icing on a cake, without the need to flatten the cake to put the icing on. This allows America to quickly move with smaller