HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Navigational Aid, Nebraska Territory
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Internal improvement; banks; tariffs; road canals; beginning of the transportation revolution. Canals, when they start to be built, do wonders for creating an east/west nexus. Erie canal; buffalo albany port of nyc important. Canals are important because it cost about one tenth than going over land; minimized the distances. First railroad consisted of a measly 13 miles of track in 1829. Throughout the 30s that mileage of track increased dramatically. Middle of the 1830s railroads are surpassing canals for shipment. By the 1840s there are approximately 3000 miles of railroad track laid in the u. s. This represented more railroad track than england has laid in its entire country. This makes possible the economic unification of the u. s. ; outposts; major market centers; broader currents of social change. This revolution fuels the ability to prompt an expansion in manufacturing. This sets the stage for what will become the industrial revolution.
