Transportation During the "Progressive Era" (1900-1919)

 Transportation was very important during Progressive Era because it helped change America. The United States was for the first time ever considered a world leader, reforming itself and the whole world.
 The evolution of transportation through out this era affected the country in a positive way. It helped Americans have other faster and more personal ways to transport themselves other than trains and ferries.

 Automobiles, trucks, buses, and streetcars were the most influential way of transportation in the 1900's. In the early 1900's Henry Ford made the Model T, an automobile that was good at handling rough roads, making it affordable, this was a great choice for people to transportate. Dirt roads were covered with crushed rocks to make driving faster. The streetcar company, founded in 1901 by Henry E. Huntingtonin, was another way people could transportate, with roads going from New York to Maine to Portland people could travel long distances making it possible to travel the whole country. The transportation industries helped the growth of cities, such as Los Angeles, and the growth of the country in general as more and more new ways of transportation were being invented and developed through out the years.