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Toll roads.
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Most people has to walk and could not afford a horse or stage coach. This is a reason most people never left their home time.
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During the 1800's most people walked. Some could afford to use a stagecoach for long journeys.
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Flatboats could only transport good down stream. Boats were usuallly sod as wood after reaching destination.
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The steamboat allowed merchants to ship goods upstream
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First railroad built in Englans
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With canals you could now transport eat to west along man-made rivers
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Peter Cooper designed first railroad in America
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1,000 people take the year adn a half long journey form Missourti to Oregon.
