The Transportation Revolution: 1815-1816 By Robert Fulton

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The transportation revolution was sparked around 1815-1816 when the National Road was continued after it's 14 year hiatus and Robert Fulton's steamboats became popular. Both of these made it faster and cheaper to move goods around America. After the National Road was built spanning from the Potomac River to the Ohio turnpikes, such as the Lancaster Turnpike, were built as well. These roads greatly reduced the costs and time it took to transport goods and travel by wagon. However, moving goods around the country by steamboat nearly cut the time it took to transport goods by water and was cheaper than roads, so much that the country went as far as to create their own canals, 3,300 miles of them by 1840, where they had previously not existed.
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