The transportation problems facing the nation were as huge as the country itself. Only a few roads for coaches and wagons stretched between the states. Coaches and wagons also moved slowly, very slowly. The 260-mile journey from New York to Boston, for example, took 39 hours by stagecoach. The only other ways to travel or move goods were by small boats, on horseback or on foot. Slow, costly transport was bad for business. It could isolate Americans in one region from those in another. "Let us bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space," John Calhoun said. States began to take on the challenge of building roads and canals. This transportation revolution had a huge impact on the everyday life of Americans resulting in conflicts with the Indians.

The most successful, and most daring, improvement of this period was the Erie Canal. The success of the Erie Cana

After the Removal Act, not all Indians peacefully accepted the move west. They had tried to adapt to the white culture, but it did nothing and so many decided to resist.

Before this time, the way of life was very different. The policies on transportation came also with policies on economic development. Before these policies individuals produced everything they ate, wore, built. People were now producing commodities to be sold to to others and then in turn, buying from others. A national market developed out of this and brough opportunities and challenges for everyone.

By the 1820's more people began to look westwards. The cotton market was steadily moving westwards. The United States rising demand for cotton was creating a great demand for new soil in which to grow it. Southern cotton planters greedily looked at the fertile lands then being held by the Indian tribes of the southeast. As economic growth reinforced slavery and pushed for western expansion, policy makers tried to keep white ra

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