Read "Progress in Transportation" (pp 130-132) and answer the following question:
What new transportation methids were developed in the first half of the 19th c. and what impact did the have?
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NEW TRANSPORTATION METHODS:
*** Conestoga Wagon
- Big, easy to cross terrain and water streams
***Turnpikes
- 1790s- stimulated the flow of manufactured goods
***The National Road
- linked East w/ Northwest- made an easy route to follow for travel
*** Canals
- Erie Canal reduced frieght costs, stimulater settlement and economic development of NY
*** Ships
- Packet Boats carried passengers, mail, and cargo
- Clipper Ships were faster than any thing else
- Steamboats Let people go up and down stream
*** Railroads
- very good and useful. The trains helped carry things, too.
Transportation is a very important feature of business and industrialization. It provides a way to ship goods all around the place be it over land, water, or (now) air.
At first there was the Conestoga Wagon - Which was like "Western" movie wagons - Big with the covered back and horses pulling it.
The next part was the Turnpikes - Which were like modern toll bridges - Except on land and not bridges. Later the government made a National Road - Providing a land trek accessible to many.
Next came the canals - they are manmade rivers which made river travel all the easier, and made overall shipping costs one-tenth less. It also helped make New York City the greatest shipping and trading center in the country.
Better ships where made - allowing the US to compete with England, these ships where faster and allowed mail, cargo, passengers, and more to go overseas all the faster!
Then came the railroads - Which allowed steam powered locomotives to run cargo and etc. much faster over land - Around the same time the telegram was perfected and Morse code was developed, allowing seamless connection between trains and the main turntable stations.
Overall the transportation helped improve the economy greatly with products being able to be placed almost anywhere all the faster.
-Chris Huckabee
many things changed around this time in transportation. they now invented the conestoga wagon which had a hull that was water proof for streams. they also invented turnpikes which were good for bringing in revenue. now they also used canals with ships of various kinds for the specific task. finally they used railroads that were reliable and could carry alot. all of these made transportation easier.
Many new ways of transportation were invented in the early 19th century, by both land and bodies of water. The first development was the turnpike. A turnpike was constructed to raise money for private companies. The first one was built in Pennsylvania. Turnpikes stimulated the flow of goods from south to west as well as to the eastern settlements. The next development was the national road in 1811. It was used to link the east with the Northwest Territory. Another common form of transportation was by canals. It was cheaper to transport goods by rivers rather than by roads. The canals were built to connect the lakes and rivers. The canals, such as the Erie Canal, reduced freight costs between the East and West and stimulated the settlement and development of northern states. The U.S. also developed the packet boats that could carry passengers, mail, and goods through the canals. The last development was the railroads. It speeds up communication and transportation of goods. All of these transportation methods proved to be beneficial to American trade. It was quicker, cheaper, and easier.
In the first half of the 19th c.,American developed some new transportations which were the Conestoga wagon, Turnpikes,the National Road,canals,all kinds of ships ,and the railroads.
The Conestoga wagon made a lot more easier to cross the streams b/cit has a high body and with wheels and the watertight bottom.
The first development in land transportation after the Revolution War was Turnpikes.The network of turnpikes linking the East with frontier settlements carried farm produce to market.Turnpikes also stimulated the flow of manufactured goods to the West and South.
The National Road link the East with the Northwest Territory which is from Cumberland,Maryland, to West Virginia.Later reched to Colubus,Ohio and Vandalia Illinois.
Americans built a network of canals which is to connect bodies of water.The Erie Canal is one of those canals. It simulated the sttlement and economic development of upstate New York. It also helped make NY city the greatest shipping and trading center in the country.
Ships are also one of the most important transportation in 19th c.
The Packet Boats carried passengers,mail and cargo across the Atlantic to Europen ports.
The Clipper ships were faster than anything else afloat.American clipper ships dominated the world's sealanes for 20 years.
The steamboats were carrying passengers and freight on every navigable waterway and they had the shortened travel time and lowered shipping costs. They were especially useful in the West,where roads were few.
The Brith developing a practical steam locomotive and built the first Railroad,the first Railroad in America was open to public in 1830s.The railroad made a lot more easier on carry things and is fast than any other land transportations.Even today,a lot of countries still use railroad for transportation to send goods or people from a place to another place.
As industry and economic growth continued to spread throughout America in the first half of the 19th century, and the size of the nation continued to grow, multiple approaches were taken to establish consistent means of transportation that would continue to stimulate the prospering economy and the growth of the nation. During this time the chief means of travel, for mail and people, were by way of stagecoach, while cargo was transported in the rugged, large, canvas-covered Conestoga wagon. The ways by which these wagons usually traveled would be on turnpikes, roads that were owned and operated by private companies for a profit. These turnpikes became more and more abundant after their introduction in the 1790’s, as they served as a means for transporting farm produce from the frontier lands to the markets in the East, and brought manufactured goods to rural areas like the South and West; however the cost of the toll for traveling on these roads and the inability of the operating bodies to build roads in rough terrain led to the less frequent use of these roads. In 1811, the federal government began to build the National Road, which linked the East to the Northwest Territory. Also during this time, bodies of water such as lakes and rivers became an efficient and cheap alternative to roads. Canals were built to connect bodies of water as to make transport even more efficient. The Erie Canal, started in 1817, which linked Lake Erie at Buffalo to Albany on the Hudson River, made the Great Lakes and West much more accessible to the East, reduced freight cost between those regions by a tenth, and helped to settle and industrialize the area around the canal, the canal also made New York City a bustling trade and shipping center. On a larger scale, America, after the War of 1812, developed a merchant navy that was rivaled by only Britain, American packet-boats carried mail, passengers, and cargo across the Atlantic to bustling European ports. Also with the invention of clipper ships, sleek, long vessels whose speed was the fastest the world had ever seen, by American shipbuilders in the 1840s, allowed for a 20 year domination period of the seas. Also with the commercial adaptation of the steam-engine powered boat, pioneered by John Fitch but perfected by Robert Fulton, domestic water travel and trade became much more quick, efficient, and easy, lowering shipping costs and travel time. The steam-boat also gave birth to a many thriving ports on the banks of American water-ways. When the British-pioneered railroad, with its steam-powered locomotive, reached the American public in the 1830s, the transportation method spread like a disease, with tracks sprawling across the land. Also the perfecting of the telegraph by Samuel F.B. Morse and his Morse-code provided for an efficient means of communication amidst all the hustle and bustle of our young, growing nation and its various transportation means. The more efficient and effective, cleverly-devised transportation methods that began to emerge in the first half of the 19th century in America helped to stimulate the growing and prospering economy and to expand our nation beyond previous horizons.
New Transportation methods were developed in the 19th century. Some examples were teh Conestoga Wagon. Different from the other wagons, it was canvas covered, with a high body, broad rimmed wheels, and a watertight bottom for crossing streams. Turnpikes were private roads that in able to ride on you had to pay a toll. The toll was to help pay for the expenses of the road. The national road connected the east with the northwest territory. Canals were also built. The canals conneceted lakes and other streams of water. Also, better ships were produced after the war of 1812. They used packet boats to carry people, cargo, and other things. Inventors were also investing into the idea of steam powered ships. Railroads, steam locomotives, and telegraphs were other forms of transportation or connection in the U.S.
Matt Bass:
The invention of the conestoga wagon, turnpike, railroads, canals,and national road all were new methods of transportation that were developed during the industrial revolution. Three new kinds of ships were also introduced: the steamboat, the "packer" boat, and the "clipper" boat. The steamboat, as well as being the best known of the three, helped people travel upriver much easier than ever before. The "clipper" boats were of a much faster design and the "packer" boats carried mostly people and mail. The Conestoga wagon is the wagon that is stereotyped into most early Western movies, while the National Road linked the East and West, making trade and travel between the two places much easier.
The invention of the turnpike increased the flow of goods and canals reduced shipping costs and stimulated the economy.
(sweatervestwithsleeves = megan)
Many new methods of transportation were introduced in the early 19th century. A number of new roads were constructed, including the National Road, which connected the East to the Northwest Territory. Many of these new roads were turnpikes, or toll roads. While turnpikes aided the flow of manufactured items from the different regions of the United States, they made travel very expensive. It became cheaper to use rivers or lakes for traveling and shipping goods. Canals, such as the Erie Canal, were built to connect bodies of water to one another. The canals took a long time to complete, but they also increased the distance that goods could be shipped, and reduced freight costs. New ships were invented, including the clipper ship and the steamboat. Both of these were much faster than previous technology of the kind.
Lastly, the first American railroads were built in the 1830s, drastically increasing the speed of travel. Samuel Morse's telegraph helped with communicationa and with routing the traffic of the different railroads.
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There were many ways that the transportation system began to grow. One of the first ways was the was the turnpikes these were roads that were built by private companies that had people pay toll for use of the road. The national road became very popular since it linked many states together. The second method of transportation was the man built canals. This was very useful since it connected most of the great river. This method of transportation was also aided by the invention of the steamboat and the clipper ships that were much faster than anything else on the waters. The third method, which is probably the most significant way of shipping good and transporting people to places around the country. This method was perfected by Morse Code. This enabled for telegraphs to be sent very quickly and aided the growth of the railroads. All of these transportation methods aided the economy of that time and still do to this day.
There were many advances in transportation in the 19th century such as roads, canals, and railroads. The turnpikes stimulated the flow of manufactured goods to the West and South. The National road was also developed to help trade and transportation throughout the states, this road linked Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, Virginia. Canals were a much faster way of travel and many were built but one main one was the Erie Canal which reduced freight costs between the East and the West by a tenth. To use the canals better ships were created. First were the clipper ships which were large sailboats that dominated the world’s sea lanes for 20 years. Steamboats were later to come but changed America when they did as they enabled trade up and down stream.
Numerous transportation methods were developed in the first half of the 19th c. These methods were as followed: the Conestoga wagon, turnpikes, the National Road, canals, ships, and railroads. The Conestoga wagon allowed for transportation across terrain and water streams alike. Turnpikes, on the other hand, linked the East with frontier settlements and they stimulated the flow of manufactured goods. The impact of the government-built National Road was that it linked the East to the Northwest Territory. Canals, and in particular the Erie Canal, reduced freight costs between the East and the West, and it also stimulated the settlement and economic development of upstate New York. The ships built in the first half of the 19th century did the following: carried passengers, mail, and cargo across the Atlantic, dominated the world's seas, and shortened travel time and lowered shipping costs. Lastly, railroads, perhaps the most significant development, made cross-country travel feasible.
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