Transportation Revolution
Steamboats
Railroads
Chapter 12 Section 3
Trade and Daily Life
Transportation Revolution
rapid growth in the speed and
convenience of transportation
main benefit goods travel quickly across US
STEAM TRAIN
STEAMBOATS
CANALS
ROADS
time and shipping cost
roads and canals = cities
Steamboats
Clermont
500
Steamboats
on MS River
Hudson
River
Robert Fulton
steamboats traveled
well upstream
Most successful inventor of the steamboat
Steamboats
v.
Gibbons
Federal Law
Ogden
Interstate Trade
State Law
American Railroads
Developed Trains
Peter Cooper
Early
1800s
1860 30,000 miles of track
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1840 US had
2,800
more
miles of
track
Tom
Thumb
American Railroads
< 5 mph
vs.
20 mph
locomotives traveled faster than most people have ever gone
Transportation Revolution Brings Changes
Wood
Coal
Transportation Revolution Brings Changes
T.R. affect America’s farming industry settlers plowed up prairies and cut down
trees to make farmland out of the midwest