please help What was the importance of the Federal Highway Act of 1956? It established tolls on highways, which funded new home construction. It helped boost the economy and encouraged the growth of suburbia. It linked New York and San Francisco by one major highway. It helped increase union membership in the construction industry.
If it linked New York and San Francisco, it basically linked the whole country together. This would allow people to spread across the country. So overall affect could be a population increase? A big impact could just be the fact that it linked the whole country together.
