transportation revolution slide show

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Turnpikes, Canals, trails, railroads, steamboats1791 - 1860

Lancaster Turnpike 1794

Lancaster Turnpike

(red)

National Road (Cumberland Road)1811

591 miles

Invented by John McAdam who used 2-inch broken stones in a layer 6-10 inches deep. Compaction of the material was

dependent on traffic .$3,500 per mile

$1,500 per mile

Introduced to America in the 1840’s

Robert FultonClermont (“Fulton’s Folly”)

1807

Erie CanalCompleted in 1825

Governor DeWitt Clinton

one horse could haul on rails a load of freight equal to the effort of twelve horses on a turnpike

First steam locomotive in America

More railroads in North

Transcontinental Railroad

1 Louisiana Purchase of 1803: which increased the land holdings of the United States by some 568 million acres, essentially doubling the size of the nation

2 the War of 1812: which brought attention to the need for communication with and security for the interior portions of the nation;

3 the westward migration: which required the ability to handle people and goods between the East and new western settlements and which also resulted in an emerging political base in the West with which the Eastern establishments had to deal.

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Introduction.html

The American Pageant – 13th Edition

http://www.connerprairie.org/historyonline/travel.html

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/Klein.Majewski.Turnpikes

http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r013.html