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What time period did the United States experience a Transportation Revolution?
The 1800s.
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When were the Steamboats developed and used?
They were developed in the late 1700s and used in the early 1800s.
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When and where were the first trains developed?
First developed in Great Britain in the early 1800s.
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What made getting goods to markets faster, easier, and less costly?
Steamboats and trains.
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What was the results of railroads?
Railroads made business expand.
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What were the two new forms of transportation?
The steamboat and steam powered trains.
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When were the Steamboats used?
Early 1800s.
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Who built a small locomotive?
Peter Cooper.
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What happened to the economy because of the Transportation Revolution?
There was now a national economoy.
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What kind of process is steel made in?
Steel is made through a smelting process.
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In what ways did the Transportation Revolution help the United States in their daily lives?
Created a boom in business across the country by reducing shipping time and costs.
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Who developed the Steamboat? Exact Spelling or bean+no points......
Robert Fulton.
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What was the locomotive called?
Tom Thumb.
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Where was wealth centered?
The north.
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What did steel help get more of?
Steel helped get more trains.
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How did the steamboat and steam powered trains help the United States?
They were developed in the late 1700s and used in the early 1800s.
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What was the first full-sized commercial steamboat was called?
The Clermont.
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How many miles of track was laid out by railroad companies.
2,800 miles of track.
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What did railroads expand?
It expanded borders of the nation.
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What was the primary fuel for steamboats?
Wood.
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What is the almost exact definition of Transportation Revolution?
A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
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Who sued Thomas Gibbon for operating steamboats in New York waters? Exact spelling or bean......
Aaron Ogden.
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What were the results of trains and railroads?
At least get one right. Trains hauled more freight (goods) than other countries. Economy surged forward manufacturers and farmers were able able to send their goods to distant markets. fastest form of transportation for a lot of people.
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What happened to towns that didn't have railroads?
They suffered.
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What river and what month/day/year did the steamboat travel on?
Traveled against the Hudson River current on August 9, 1807.