USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the 1800s, steamboats played a pivotal role in the early stages of the transportation revolution. In 1807, Robert Fulton developed the first steamboat in the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the beginning of the century, U.S. citizens and immigrants to the country traveled primarily by horseback or on the rivers. After a while, crude roads were built and then canals. Before long the railroads crisscrossed the country moving people and goods with greater efficiency.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the nineteenth century, the steamboat would become the preeminent form of commercial and passenger transportation on the nation’s great rivers such as the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Hudson.

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.