USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Transportation Revolution: a period in the U.S. when transportation became cheaper and more efficient with the rapid development of new technology.

Detailed explanation-2: -What was the Transportation Revolution? A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Steam engines made it possible to sail upstream as easily and nearly as quickly as down, causing an explosion of travel and shipping that radically changed frontier life. The Clermont made the trip from New York City to Albany in 32 hours, revolutionizing river travel in 1807.

Detailed explanation-4: -Railroads became a major industry, stimulating other heavy industries such as iron and steel production. These advances in travel and transport helped drive settlement in the western regions of North America and were integral to the nation’s industrialization.

Detailed explanation-5: -Their trek was made possible by the construction of roads, canals, and railroads, projects that required the funding of the federal government and the states. New technologies, like the steamship and railroad lines, had brought about what historians call the transportation revolution.