USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What was the Transportation Revolution? A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation. What two new modes of transportation largely contributed to the Transportation Revolution? The two modes were the train and the steamboat.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The transportation revolution in the United States began when Americans taking advantage of features of the natural environment to move people and things from place to place began searching for ways to make transport cheaper, faster, and more efficient.

Detailed explanation-4: -America’s economic transformation in the early 1800s was linked to dramatic changes in transportation networks. Construction of roads, canals, and railroads led to the expansion of markets, facilitated the movement of peoples, and altered the physical landscape.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the 1820s and 1830s, a market revolution was transforming American business and global trade. Factories and mass production increasingly displaced independent artisans. Farms grew and produced goods for distant, not local, markets, shipping them via inexpensive transportation like the Erie Canal.