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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.
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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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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.
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.
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.
This chapter discusses the age of revolutions in transportation and communication: the application of new machines and energy sources to transportation, and the liberation of communication from the need to transport objects.
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AMERICANS ON THE MOVE. The expansion of roads, canals, and railroads changed people’s lives. In 1786, it had taken a minimum of four days to travel from Boston, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island. By 1840, the trip took half a day on a train.
