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Digital History: Accelerating Transportation WebsiteDigital History: Accelerating Transportation Website
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Digital History
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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1160L
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Digital History: Accelerating Transportation

Curated by ACT

A thorough look at the transportation revolution that occured in the early 1800s. Read about the building of roads, canals, and the spread of railroads. Find out about the surprising opposition to improved transportation, and see how these improvements spurred the economy of the North and the West.

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canals, railroads

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river transportation, steamships, transportation revolution, turnpikes, accelerating transportation, baltimore and ohio railroad, clinton's ditch, digital history, erie canal, robert fulton

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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