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The Transportation Revolution
state and federally sponsored infrastructure projects link producers to markets
highways
canals
Canals
Erie canal, 1825
350 mile “artificial river”
Lake Erie to Hudson river
northwest territory tied to NYC international markets
upstate NY rapidly transformed, NY state becomes country’s economic center
national canal-building boom follows, usually with government sponsorship
Steamboats
first commercial line, 1807, Hudson river
rivers were 2-way routes
speed and power drastically increased “the annihilation of time and space”
key to growth of Mississippi Valley and first western cities
Railroads
began around the same time, but grew more slowly
first long-distance line, Baltimore and Ohio, 1827
government-sponsored like canals
coal gradually replaced wood which led to first large-scale use of fossil fuels
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