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Innovations in transportation have fundamentally altered the way people and goods move across this vast nation. Each innovation reflects the ingenuity and de...
Americans take our highways for granted, because getting around America was a massive pain before the interstate highway system was put in place.
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The Transcontinental Railroad connected coasts and provided a much safer, faster, and more efficient way of traveling. Find out more about this huge accompli...
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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.
- Towns and Cities. “Because of the 1956 law, and the subsequent Highway Act of 1958, the pattern of community development in America was fundamentally altered and was henceforth based on the automobile,” writes the Our Documents project.
- Shipping Corridors. Driving down many interstate highways, particularly at night, comes with a familiar sight: a cavalcade of eighteen-wheelers pulling food and goods across the country.
- American Culture. “By making roads more reliable and by making Americans more reliant on them, they took away most of the adventure and romance associated with driving,” writes Fox.
Apr 15, 2016 · 1. THEY OPENED UP THE COUNTRY… The first highways were a poorly maintained patchwork of routes, often called “trails,” that could be very difficult to navigate. The 1921 Federal Aid Highway Act...
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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.
