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The Industrial Revolution drastically changed the way people traveled and how people transported goods! Travel used to rely on animals and traveling people or goods from one place to another was slow and difficult. It would take weeks to get from one place to another!

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But with the Industrial Revolutions upbringing, new modes of transportation arose, varying from turnpikes to canals and even to railroads! The Industrial Revolution sure brought a change to the name "transportation"!

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Turnpikes were one of the first new forms of transportation the early 1800's brought forth!

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Turnpikes were basically roads that criss-crossed the inhabited parts of the U.S.!

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They included tolls for the people to make money off the companies. At specific checkpoints, one would be asked to give a toll.

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Turnpikes were very common in the Northeast rather than the south and western areas of the U.S.!

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Railroads were the last and most effective mode of transportation in the Industrial Revolution. It was the fastest mode of transportation invented as well!

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With the Transcontinental Railroad invented in 1869, the U.S. felt smaller than ever as the western territories and places such as California could now be reached within a matter of days by those in the Northeast!

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The Transcontinental Railroad stretched from Nebraska (near the Iowa border,) Through Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and ended near the Pacific Ocean off of California!

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Letters, goods, and packages could also be transported much faster and mailing become much easier across the U.S.!

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Furthermore, the first railroad station in the U.S. was in Baltimore! This is because no canals reached there and so they came up with starting the railroad to connect their city to other companies across the U.S.!

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However, not many trains were connected to go through the south therefore causing a minor revolt in the Southern states.

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With the invention of the steam engine and then the steamboat. Canals started to be constructed throughout the Northern states to bring better water transportation!

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The most important canal built in the U.S. was the Erie Canal which connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River in New York!

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The Erie Canal was thought to have been a fail but it came out as an extreme success with the funding put into constructing it, really paying off!

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The Erie Canal was 363 miles long and had locks in it that would need to be opened for ships to cross through specific areas of the canal!

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All in all, the invention of Turnpikes, Canals, and Railroads, helped shape our transportation that we have today. It created a faster, easier, and more convenient form of transportation for people, and for the transporting of goods!