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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION

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Transportation Revolution:

Map of Highways and Waterways in the United States 1826-1830 

 


 

Spreading networks of turnpikes, roads, canals, and railroads  

 

National or Cumberland Road (1811, completed in 1852)   

 

Erie Canal (1825, 364 miles—Albany to Buffalo)

Travel time cut from  6 weeks to 6 days

 

 

 

The steamboat - Robert Fulton  

 

  Letter to President Jackson (1829)

 

 

Clyde Osmer DeLand, “The First Locomotive. Aug. 8th, 1829. Trial Trip of the "Stourbridge Lion," 1916, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c09364/.
Clyde Osmer DeLand, “The First Locomotive. Aug. 8th, 1829. Trial Trip of the “Stourbridge Lion,” 1916, via Library of Congress.

 

The Market Revolution is going to change the very idea of mobility.

Where can you go, and how, by what means?

REVIEW

HENRY CLAY’s AMERICAN SYSTEM (1824)  

 Leads to specialization  and inter regional dependency (and sectionalism)

 

 

 

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