https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6 A Part of my "Industrial Revolution" Website | Ahmad Chishti en-us 2022-05-30 12:23:07 UTC 2022-05-31 16:48:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://creazilla-store.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/cliparts/70496/factory-clipart-md.png ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204618772 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!]]> 2022-05-30 12:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204618772 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204620383 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"!]]> 2022-05-30 12:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204620383 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204624329 Turnpikes were one of the first new forms of transportation the early 1800's brought forth!]]> 2022-05-30 12:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204624329 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204625725 Turnpikes were basically roads that criss-crossed the inhabited parts of the U.S.!]]> 2022-05-30 12:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204625725 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204626544 They included tolls for the people to make money off the companies. At specific checkpoints, one would be asked to give a toll.]]> 2022-05-30 12:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204626544 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204627022 Turnpikes were very common in the Northeast rather than the south and western areas of the U.S.!]]> 2022-05-30 12:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204627022 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204629348 Railroads were the last and most effective mode of transportation in the Industrial Revolution. It was the fastest mode of transportation invented as well!]]> 2022-05-30 12:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204629348 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204630257 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! ]]> 2022-05-30 12:41:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204630257 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204630742 Letters, goods, and packages could also be transported much faster and mailing become much easier across the U.S.!]]> 2022-05-30 12:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204630742 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204632373 The Transcontinental Railroad stretched from Nebraska (near the Iowa border,) Through Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and ended near the Pacific Ocean off of California!]]> 2022-05-30 12:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204632373 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204633131 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.!]]> 2022-05-30 12:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204633131 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204634052 However, not many trains were connected to go through the south therefore causing a minor revolt in the Southern states.]]> 2022-05-30 12:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204634052 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204636747 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!]]> 2022-05-30 12:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204636747 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204637378 The most important canal built in the U.S. was the Erie Canal which connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River in New York!]]> 2022-05-30 12:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204637378 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204637937 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!]]> 2022-05-30 12:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204637937 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204638746 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!]]> 2022-05-30 12:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204638746 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204640083 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!]]> 2022-05-30 12:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204640083 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204643219 2022-05-30 12:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204643219 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204645140 2022-05-30 12:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204645140 ac32979 https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204647768 2022-05-30 12:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ac32979/jec7t18o00wo5cu6/wish/2204647768