Transportation was slow in the 18th century, so people began to come up with many plans to speed things up.
The Philadelphia-Lancaster Turnpike was created to connect eastern cities.
Construction of the Cumberland Road was started in 1811. It was 591 miles long stretching from Maryland to Illinois it was completed in 1852.
Because the shipment of goods over land by roads were not considered economical at the time, Robert Fulton created the first successful steamboat and traveled from New York to the Hudson Bay.
Steamboat travel became very popular aft that.
The invention of steamboat transport made way for canals to be built.
The Erie Canal stretched 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo.
Still, transportation needed speeding up over land. This led to the greatest invention of the time, the railroad.
In 1860 nearly 30,000 railroad tracks were laid.
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