Transportation Revolution

1. Transportation Revolution
By: Emily

2. What was the Transportation
Revolution
•Segment of the Industrial Revolution
•Improvements in transportation technology
•War of 1812 and
the Panic of 1819

3. Roads and Turnpikes
•Dirt roads provided the major form of
transportation in the late 18th century.
•Wooden bridges were constructed to overcome
bad weather.
•In 1775 it took one week to travel from Boston
to New York, but by 1800 it only took four days.
•Difficult maintenance and
high expenses led to the
demise of roads
as the ideal form of
transportation.

4. Canals
•Canals linked interior areas to natural
waterways.
•The Erie Canal was completed in 1825 and
was the longest canal in the world.
•Canals proved to be unsuccessful because
of competition from other transportation
methods.

5. Steamboats
•Robert Fulton built the first commercially
successful steamboat in 1807.
•Steamboats were extremely profitable and
influential methods of transportation.
•Steamboats became the
first lead in developing
a major technology for
the United States.

6. Railroads
•The first domestic locomotive was built by
Horatio Allen in 1829.
•Improvements of English railroad
technology helped to make railroads
successful in America.
•Railroads could reach places that water
systems couldn’t, so they soon extended all
over the country.

7. Effects of the Transportation
Revolution
•Diminished western isolation
•Cost to transport good dropped significantly
•Marketing grew along with market towns
•Increased trade volume increased the pace
of business