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"Transportation played a central role in shaping the nature and location of economic activity." -Jeremy Atack
Overall
The transportation revolution ultimately made life simplier for workers and markets. It facilitated movement of peoples, goods, and information, as well as stimulated agricultural expansion. People were drawn into the national economy market. Shipping goods was less expensive and saving more time. Not only did it help our country economically, but socially, as it strengthened ties between the Northeast and the Midwest.
The transportation revolution had a major effect on the political equilibrium. It brought easterners and European immigrants to the West and increased the population of the North relative to the South. Political attitudes in the west were changed as a result of this influx of non-southerners, because earlier, most westerners were transplanted southerners. As a result, the balance in Congress was affected, as it increased the number of Senators in the free states.
The transportation revolution had a major effect on the political equilibrium. It brought easterners and European immigrants to the West and increased the population of the North relative to the South. Political attitudes in the west were changed as a result of this influx of non-southerners, because earlier, most westerners were transplanted southerners. As a result, the balance in Congress was affected, as it increased the number of Senators in the free states.
Sources used:
On the Move: Transportation and the American Story (Book)
The American People Creating a Nation and a Society (Textbook)
The Transportation Revolution and Antebellum Sectional Disagreement (academic journal)
On the Move: Transportation and the American Story (Book)
The American People Creating a Nation and a Society (Textbook)
The Transportation Revolution and Antebellum Sectional Disagreement (academic journal)