Transportation

Transportation included, trains, boats, walking, submarines.
 * Transportation By Michael Roberts,** **Manny Pacheco**

In 1800, the only practical way to travel and trade across long distances was along the nation’s natural waterways. As a result, settlement clung to the nation’s coasts and rivers. A few roads connected major cities, but travel on them was difficult and time consuming. One hundred years later, railroads sped along thousands of miles of track. Large ships moved passengers and freight across the oceans and smaller boats plied the nation’s rivers, lakes and canals. Bicycles, carriages and wagons rolled over thousands of miles of roads. Seventy-five million people lived coast to coast, many in towns and cities that had sprouted up along the new routes. (Team, By: Aotm. "America on the Move | Transportation History." //National Museum of American History//. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. [].)

In early 1800-1850's main public transportation was horse drawn. In 1852, the first railroad tracks were laid in Hilliard, Ohio. These railroad tracks were completed in 1853 and the railroad opened in Hilliard. The railroad station was made up of three **boxcars** put together to form a building, and it was called Hilliard’s Station.("NW History Express: 1800's: Transporation & Technology." //Northwest History Express//. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. [].)

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A activity- Pretend you are in the 19th century and walking around in circles for a minutes. *Congratulations* you somewhat simulated a type of transportation in the 19th century...