steamboat
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The steamboat reversed this flow, reshaping the antebellum economy decades before the railroad.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Four years after completing her studies, Flora married Edwin Patterson of Ripley, Ohio, and they settled in nearby Cincinnati where he was a steamboat pilot.
From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023
Developments in transportation and communications technology, especially the locomotive, steamboat, and telegraph, transformed the way their citizens lived, traveled, and worked.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Previously, travelers had to take a canoe, steamboat, sailboat or train.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022
That night, he had stood alone on the top deck of a steamboat called the River Queen, watching Grant’s big guns shell the Confederate defenders of Petersburg.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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The Industrial Revolution - Middle School and High School
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