Transportation In The 1800s
Before the nineteenth century transportation was a very hard and daunting task to do unlike in today's world where it is fairly easy and fast to travel from place to place everyday. Back then there was only a few ways to transport people and goods around the country such as Horse and buggie or by boat. Transporting goods around the country was a much slower and longer process to do back then than it is today. Soon after during 1970 new ideas were being created to provide a faster and quicker ways to transport goods and people across the country. Theses new ways were going to replace sailing through the Atlantic Ocean to the other side of the country to transport goods. These new inventions started the period that would be known as the Industrial
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Canals are long, narrow artificial waterways. They were used as passageways for boats to carry goods and passengers from location to location(1.). They also had social and economic influence on the people who used them. They created a quicker way to transport goods across the country ,made a more easier access to raw materials and was used to migrate from the east to the west. To build them took a lot of people, money and resources. Canals use a system of locks and inclines to get the boats through the passageways. The locks were used to drain water in and out of the canals to raise the water levels so the boat can have the right amount of water to flow down the stream. Inclines were used to move boats over high structures like mountains and hills.(1.)One of the first canals created in 1760 was by Brinderly and funded by the Duke of bridge water(2.). After the duke's canals success many more canals were being built. The most common known was the Erie Canal which traveled from The Great Lakes to Albany and was used mostly for freight transportation. The canal was four feet deep, forty feet wide and three hundred thirty-six miles long.(2) The Erie Canal was very successful during it's creation and helped the economy by reducing the price of bulk goods and decreasing the price for farmers to produce certain crops like wheat. This was made possible because the canal reduced the time it took for goods to be transported from months to days. (4) It also helped turn New York and Cleveland cities that touched the Erie Canal increase economically and turn into commercial cities.(2) The great economic and social success of the Erie canals caused a boom of canals being built in other states by 1837. Although they were successful they did not compete with the Erie
Canals are long, narrow artificial waterways. They were used as passageways for boats to carry goods and passengers from location to location(1.). They also had social and economic influence on the people who used them. They created a quicker way to transport goods across the country ,made a more easier access to raw materials and was used to migrate from the east to the west. To build them took a lot of people, money and resources. Canals use a system of locks and inclines to get the boats through the passageways. The locks were used to drain water in and out of the canals to raise the water levels so the boat can have the right amount of water to flow down the stream. Inclines were used to move boats over high structures like mountains and hills.(1.)One of the first canals created in 1760 was by Brinderly and funded by the Duke of bridge water(2.). After the duke's canals success many more canals were being built. The most common known was the Erie Canal which traveled from The Great Lakes to Albany and was used mostly for freight transportation. The canal was four feet deep, forty feet wide and three hundred thirty-six miles long.(2) The Erie Canal was very successful during it's creation and helped the economy by reducing the price of bulk goods and decreasing the price for farmers to produce certain crops like wheat. This was made possible because the canal reduced the time it took for goods to be transported from months to days. (4) It also helped turn New York and Cleveland cities that touched the Erie Canal increase economically and turn into commercial cities.(2) The great economic and social success of the Erie canals caused a boom of canals being built in other states by 1837. Although they were successful they did not compete with the Erie