USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -19th Century Transportation Movement 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-2: -In America during the 19th century, the invention of the steam engine dramatically improved shipping by water and created a new transportation industry-the railroad.

Detailed explanation-3: -RAILROADS. Starting in the late 1820s, steam locomotives began to compete with horse-drawn locomotives. The railroads with steam locomotives offered a new mode of transportation that fascinated citizens, buoying their optimistic view of the possibilities of technological progress.

Detailed explanation-4: -The invention of the railroad and the steam powered locomotive opened up a whole new world in transportation. Now trains could travel wherever tracks could be built. Transportation was no longer limited to rivers and canals.