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River Transport (the steamboat)

Economic History

The post colonial period:

Overcoming the constraints transportation

steamboats then became very successful .used

A development of a transportation net started in the early 1800s

Reduced freight rates

Canals were built to overcome the transportation network..

- they were very expensive

- built in the eastern states of the united states

In the early 19th century there was no

By 1816 100 miles of canals were built

1820 1830 canal construction picked up (3326 miles of canals were available in

the united states.but there after canal construction declined because of the

railway..

Canals had disadvantages: one canal was very successful Erie canal (not being

used)

By 1950 canal construction had seized

Why they were not successful

eerie canal started (1813 and 1825)

- economic activities were taking place in new ohio valley(transportation provided

by the great lakes)

erie canal connected great lakes

Contributed to the development to the eastern part of the united states.no

agriculture could have been shipped by the great lakes to the eerie canal to the

Hudson river to nyc.

Stimulated the commercialization of agriculture in western new York and Midwest of

the USA. in area surroundings the great lakes and eastern part of US

It stimulated industry in the east, particularly in new Englandby providing access to

western markets, particularly manufactured goods.

It contributed to growth of nyc as a port, a commercial center and a manufacturing

center.


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Other cities such as Detroit, buffalo and Chicago owed their birth and subsequent

development to the Erie Canal.

ROADS AND TURNPIKES

- same period they were working on steam boats, canals, and developing land

transportation

When turnpike was built, they charged tolls, .they had turnpikes on the road

ESSAY QUESTION ON THIS :::::!!!!

Railway system in AMERICA!!! (early railways were powered by horses) then the

steam engine replaced horses.

WE WANT how many miles of reailways were being built and how fast..the need to

serve entire country

THE FIRST RAILROADS USED HORSES in the US as motive power..(had to acquire land

to build railway) bying land verycheapforcing people out..illegal things because

it was very important.first railroads used horse power.(the steam locomotive was

not developed yet)

1st railway boom in the UNITED STATES began in late 1840s and 1850srailway

construction into two periods.

Railway Construction: two periods:

The first period: The beginning of the railway boom in the late 1830s to the coming

of the economic depression in the 1870s

The first economic depression that was experiences was in 1870sfirst depression

called Long Depressionperiod of almost continuous growth of the network except

during the civil war..

Civil war disrupted construction of railway.

7 year depression in 1870 .

70,000 tracks already in operation (1870) were already in operation..

2nd period of the American Railway history extended from the depression to theprosperous first years of the new century, one of consumptions and

consolidation.so many rail companies building railways that they were competing

with each other.trying to get rival railway business out ..

By 1900, 200 miles were in operation.the new mileage filled in the network in the

eastthey were building far more than they were supposed to build.


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They became oligopolies --- small number of sellers.

First railway line was Ohio Railroad (started in 1828)

1840s and 1850s.railway construction picked up..became more an internal mode

of transportation.almost completely replaced canals.competing directly with the

steam boats and the turnpikes.

The second phase:

Extended from the depression years of the 1870s to the prosperous first years o the

new century..it was a period of consolidation and competition but also railway

construction continued a pace.

The first railway boom began in the late 1840s and 1850s but the first lines were built

in 1830s and 1840s.. they were built to connect existing commercial centers and to

supplement existing water transportation..that is the pattern of railway first coincided

with the already settled areas of the eastern sea board.

These lines were all short, rarely more than fifty miles.

They connected towns in Massachusetts, New Jersey, also lines linking new York and

Philadelphia.

Philadelphia and Baltimore and Baltimore and Washingtonthey were connecting

lines with most important economic activity..

Elaborate on the economic reasons for the American Revolutionary War.a page.(American war of independence)

Have to tell me what those reasons are and why thyose reaoosnes you listed

contributed to the revoulationary war

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