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Describe the development of improved methods of nineteenth-century domestic transportation. Identify the ways in which roads, canals, and railroads impacted Americans’ lives in the nineteenth century. Americans in the early 1800s were a people on the move, as thousands left the eastern coastal states for opportunities in the West.
- OpenStaxCollege
- 2014
Journey though the history of the United States to learn how transportation changed American lives and landscapes. See behind-the-scenes stories about collecting and preparing objects for the exhibition.
The Transportation Revolution. The expansion of internal American trade greatly increased with the adoption of canals, steamboats, and railroads. These collective advances in technology became known as the Transportation Revolution.
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Over the past 200 years, the evolution of a transportation mode typically has followed a sequence that included invention, demonstration, testing, evaluation, introduction into regular service, public acceptance, and ultimately the creation of totally new transportation services.
In North America, the Post Office Act of 1792 inaugurated a new era in communication. The falling cost of shipping freight by sea, air, and train and the lowering of tariffs and other trade barriers since World War II have fueled the increase in world trade, a major aspect of globalization.
- Daniel R. Headrick
- 2015
13: Transportation Revolution. In this chapter we examine technological changes that improved Americans’ ability to move people and goods, as well as the economic and political forces that helped shape the growth of transportation networks.
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The entire country’s transportation infrastructure grew dramatically during the first half of the nineteenth century. AMERICANS ON THE MOVE The expansion of roads, canals, and railroads changed people’s lives.
