With railroads, people can travel across the country in a much faster rate and easier fashion (class lecture). Right before the Civil War, railroads already covered three-fourths of the American map with thirty thousand miles of railroad tracks (301). After the Civil War in the Gilded Age, railroads were becoming much more efficient and cheaper for the regular middle class people (class lecture). Transportation was innovated with the use of natural resources such as coal, oil, and iron (520). In a way, transportation made the nation bigger in terms of expansion, but it also made the nation smaller in a way that people can travel far distances in a much faster…
‘’Americans in the early 1800s were a people on the move, as thousands left the eastern coastal states for opportunities in the West. Unlike their predecessors, who traveled by foot or wagon train, these settlers had new transport options. Their trek was made possible by the construction of roads, canals, and railroads, projects that required the funding of the federal government and the states. In 1811, construction began on the Cumberland Road, a national highway that provided thousands with a route from Maryland to Illinois. ’’(258)…
Additionally, railroads and bridges were able to connect people around the country in ways that had previously been impossible.…
E.B. White, in his essay “Farewell, My Lovely”, writes about the legacy of the Model T during one of the hardest times in American history, the Great Depression. Through his writing, White reveals the significance the Model T holds to the ever-changing American culture. He uses the Model T to model the Great Depression, and to reminisce on memories of when the Model T was popular. He does this by introducing the Model T as a divine provision: “It was the miracle God had wrought.” The Model T was more than a vehicle; to White, “it was hardworking, commonplace, heroic”, these qualities influenced those who were fortunate enough to own one.…
Did you know that the average American travels 13,346 miles per year? But, why do we travel so much? When we embark on journeys, we may all have different objectives or reasons on why we took that journey. But, in the end, journeys are meant to teach us something that can drastically change our lives. Something that Odysseus from The Odyssey by Homer, Kira Salak from The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu, and the character from ¨The Journey¨ by Mary Oliver all have in common is that the characters all learned a lesson that heavily impacted the way they lived day to day.…
Before any transportation was made between the coasts, though, there was technology to be put in place. Until the 1830’s, stagecoaches, wagons, and boats were the sole means of traveling. These vehicles were forced to travel across terribly made roads that made even six-team stagecoaches struggle to manage two miles per hour (Wormser 2). This, combined with badly built stagecoaches made travel miserable (Wormser 6).…
The new and improved roads in America vastly influenced the country. In the early 1800’s, there were dirt roads that were rutted and uneven, making them hard to travel on by stagecoach. When the government laid the new cobblestone roads, they made traveling not only easier, but shorter and safer. As a result, the up-to-date roads were easier to navigate by wagon which resulted in less walking and travel time.…
Sydnie Holder 3.9.16 Mr. Modica Early American History Impacts of the Transcontinental Railroad Since the dawn of time man has strived to be on the move, exploring the unknown and seeking news ways of getting from one point to another. The innovation of transportation gave people the gift of exploration and traveling to places they have never been able to go before. During the early 1800s the main modes of travel were wagons, horses or on-foot, causing travel to be difficult and sluggish. This drove people to discover a more efficient way of travel, which resulted in the creation of trains. Due to this invention people were able to travel farther and at faster paces.…
This improvement of travel also sparked an interest in the Americans as a way to look beyond the communities in which they lived and by cultivating the commercialization. However the National Road didn’t stop the revolution of the transportation at the time, many other growths were…
As teenagers in the 1950s, my grandparents’ experiences of traveling are quite different from what I am used to. The dynamic of family road trips, accommodations along the way, and destinations abroad have changed throughout the years. Road trips were the typical vacation of the era consisting of the whole family squeezed into the car. It was not until the 1950s when the construction of the interstate highway system had concluded (Bly). This completion opened up vast…
Automobiles are a major icon of the 1920s, and play a role in the novel that was written and takes place during the decade, The Great Gatsby. To this day, automobiles are a very useful and convenient invention; ever since their inception people have been fascinated by them, and the automobile industry has produced a great amount of jobs. Especially in the 1920s, automobile ownership escalated quite rapidly, seeing over 8 million registrations in 1920 and nearly 24 million by the end of the decade. The automobile became very popular during the decade that roared; driving evolved from a mere utility to something that could be done for enjoyment. Furthermore, as the automobile became more popular, more automobile owners were wanting to travel farther in them.…
When Henry Ford created the Ford Motor Company, his goal was to make the automobile a need rather than a luxury that was affordable for the average American family. The car that accomplished that goal was the Model T. When Ford’s Model T was released in October of 1903, the main key to it’s success was that a new type of alloy, which is a mixture of two metals, called Vanadium was used instead of regular steel because it was lighter and stronger. The revolutionary alloy had been used in some European automobiles, but it had never been used by US car manufacturers.…
I think that cars need to remain central in the lives in most Americans because it is important for Americans to get from one place to another by car. The three reasons are because helping people take off, building the economy, and cars now and forever. The first reason cars need to remain in the lives in most Americans is because it is important that Americans get to take off. The cars are freedom to Americans, they could go in their car to go where ever and whenever they want.…
Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ1667500043/BIC1?u=vbcps&xid=b4cbf671 Model T: The Car for the Masses. (2001). In N. Schlager & J. Lauer (Eds.), Science and Its Times (Vol. 6).…
Gasoline-powered cars have been around for over 100 years, and have changed the lives of humanity on many levels. Since it’s creation, hundreds of thousands of jobs were conceived and transportation that helped connect more of the world in a way that boats couldn’t. People like Karl Benz and Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile and changed how people travel to this day. Before the days of Bluetooth Radio, automatic parking systems and self-driven cars, there was the three-wheeled Motor Car (Cox) and the Model T (MadeHow), the first in a long line of inovative ideas in automotive manufacturing. Transportation has been a necessity in society since the stone age.…