From: Andrea Pawlowski
Date: 3/14/00
Time: 12:16:57 AM
Remote Name: 155.247.156.224
Andrea Pawlowski Text Assignment March 13, 2000 The question I chose to answer was "What was the transportation revolution and why was it important to freedom intake early nineteenth century?" Back in 1813 transportation was so poor that it took seventy-five days for one wagon of goods pulled by four horses to make a trip about a thousand miles from Worcester, Massachusetts, to Charleston, South Carolina. As a result of these conditions political leaders learned that things needed to be changed. Therefore the "transportation revolution" was what John C. Calhoun described as the nation binding together to make a perfect transportation system, full of canals and roads. The revolution included making new roads because people needed to be able to travel with having little cost to pay but at a fast pace. The next invention was a system of water transportation. The National Road could only go so far with little cost but because of the need for certain ingredients such as wheat and flour, a new system had to be devised. With the use of steam power, steam boats were soon invented to help with the aide of transportation. Even though these systems were efficient there still was a problem that was left unsolved. How could materials from the west coast be shipped to the east coast directly that were involved within the trade commerce? The answer was found and it was titled the "Canal Boom." This system connected the seaboard cities directly to the Great Lakes, the Ohio, and the Mississippi. Freedom intake obviously grew because of all the new ways of transportation. People could now go where they needed to and trade had grown unbelievably. Farms were able to sell their products across the nation and make a profit. Farmers and produces were no longer limited to just selling their goods within their town or city. The transportation revolution helped everything expand including trade lines, people's availability of where they could go and a faster production system.