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The Transportation Revolution

omic performance of both firms and households (Mills, 1985). The composition of the population of any given community is a significant factor in the determination of the mix of the publicly provided goods in that community. Conversely, government may develop a specific mix of publicly provided goods with an intention of attracting and manipulating a population mix for an area. Road improvements, as an example, may make it possible for more people to locate in a specific area, because access between that area and major job location centers is facilitated by the improved roads.

The westward expansion of the United States was "initiated by traders, explorers, pioneer settlers, and, not least of all, by the military à" (Hill, 1957, p. vii). In the first-half of the nineteenth century, however, the westward expansion of the country was given added impetus by governmental actionsù both federal and stateùdesigned to speed the development of the nation's transportation system (Goodrich, 1960).

From 1801 to 1834, a massive development of post roads occurred in the United States (Beard, Bears, and Beard, 1960). By 1834, this road network connected the Atlantic coast region with the areas along the Mississippi River, and the Great Lakes region with the areas along the Gulf of Mexico (Beard, Beard, & Beard, 1960). Construction on the Cumberland Road, known as the National Road, was begun in 1811, under the authority of federal legislation enacted in 1806 (Jordan, 1948). By 1934, the National Road "penetrated the heart of Ohio and regular stagecoaches were running over it to and from the seaboard" (Beard, Beard, & Beard, 1960, p. 213). The road system played a major role in the migration of people to the west, and it brought the beginning of significant economic interaction between the north and the south (Billington, 1974; Morison, 1965).

The development of water transportation also progressed rapidly. The government of New Yor...

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