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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
- OpenStaxCollege
- 2014
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. This increase in American industrialization in the nineteenth century directly influenced the rapid settlement of the West.
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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
The transportation revolution in the United States began when Americans taking advantage of features of the natural environment to move people and things from place to place began searching for ways to make transport cheaper, faster, and more efficient.
This study is motivated by several inter-related concerns and observations concerning the role of transportation improvements in nineteenth century America during what George Rogers Taylor famously labeled “The Transportation Revolution.”
- Jeremy Atack
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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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.
