Sentences with 'steamboats'

Example sentences and phrases with the word steamboats and other words derived from it.

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« New technologies, such as steamboats and railway lines, had brought about what historians call the transportation revolution. »
« In 1817, only seventeen plied the waters of the western rivers, but by 1837 there were over seven hundred steamboats in operation. »
« Soon, a fleet of steamboats was plying the Hudson River and New York harbour, and later expanded to ply every major river in the United States, including the mighty Mississippi. »
« Together with the hundreds of steamboats that plied America's rivers, these advances in transportation made it easier and less expensive to ship agricultural products from the West to feed the people of Eastern cities, and to ship manufactured goods from the East to the people of the West. Without this ability to transport goods, the market revolution would not have been possible. »

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