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Slide Show
Outline
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Means of Transportation and Communication
  • Roads in the Early 1800s
    • New Roads Improve Transportation
    • Turnpikes
  • Water Transportation
    • Upstream Without a Paddle
    • Steamboats Furnish a Vital Link
    • Canals
  • Railroads
  • Communications
    • Postal Service
    • The Telegraph
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Roads in the Early 1800s
  • New Roads Improve Transportation
    • The Great Wagon Road
    • The Wilderness Road
    • The National Road
  • Turnpikes
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Water Transportation
  • Upstream Without a Paddle
  • Steamboats Furnish a Vital Link
    • John Fitch Experiments with Steamboats
    • Robert Fulton and his Clermont
  • Canals
4
Railroads
  • Postal Service
  • Telegraph
  • Summary