[#insert4] These roads made possible a reduction in transportation costs and thus stimulated the commercialization of agriculture along their routes. [#paragraph5]Two other developments presaged the end of the era of turnpikes and started a transportation revolution that resulted in increased regional...
THE TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION By the close of the eighteenthcentury, the outlines of a worldeconomywere clearlyvisible. Centered in Western Europe, it included Russia, India, the East Indies, the Middle East, northern and western Africa, and the Americas.Tradehad increased greatly and shipping had ...
In the course of the nineteenth century, around 9 million square miles of land were settled in North and South America and Oceania. This was made possible by the decline in transportation costs, which greatly extended the area from which bulky products such as grains and minerals could be mark...
Two other developments presaged the end of the era of turnpikes and started a transportation revolution that resulted in increased regional specialization and the growth of a national market economy.First came the steamboat; although flatboats and keelboats continued to be important until the 1850’...
The Transportation Revolution, 1815–1860. By George Rogers Taylor. [Economic History of the United States, Volume IV.] (New York: Rinehart and Company. 1951. Pp. xvii, 490. $4.50.) RC Overton - 《American Historical Review》 被引量: 0发表: 1952年 The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860...
Discover how transportation in the 1800s dramatically changed. Explore how the transportation revolution affected railroads, turnpikes, and...
托福阅读12.Paragraph 5Two other developments presaged the end of theera of turnpikes and started a transportation revolution that resulted inincreased regional specialization and the growth of a national market economy.First came the steamboat; a
and its effects were rarely felt a hundred miles inland.The expansion of economic activity into the interior, and its spread throughout China, Japan, Oceania, and Africa, was a major development of the nineteenth century.It was largely accomplished through a revolution in transportation, particularl...
正确答案:C 解析:The passage does not state that population decline in major cities was an effect of the transportation revolution.All of the other answers are given: The expansion of economic activity...and its spread...; ...was largely accomplished through a revolution in transportation...;...
To learn more about the transportation revolution, review the lesson the Transportation Revolution in U.S. History. The lesson has the following objectives: Explain what the transportation revolution was Discuss the importance of the building of certain dams and canals, such as the Erie Canal ...