Steamboat/New Transportation 1807 (5 ene 1807 año – 22 nov 1808 año)

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- John Fitch built four more steamboats, but they were expensive to build and to operate. Because they were so expensive, his steamboats were unsuccessful. The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807.
- But railroads were even more revolutionary than steamboats. In spite of their power and speed, steam-powered riverboats depended on rivers or occasionally on canals to run, but a railroad could be built almost anywhere.
-Canals are waterways channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service. The oldest known canals were irrigation canals, built in Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC, in what is now Iraq and Iran.
-The Cumberland Road, also known as the National Road or National Turnpike, was the first road in U.S. history funded by the federal government. It promoted westward expansion, encouraged commerce between the Atlantic colonies and the West, and paved the way for an interstate highway system.
-Connecting the two American coasts made the economic export of Western resources to Eastern markets easier than ever before.
-fourteen miles

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