How did transportation change in the nineteenth century?

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Answers will vary. The use of transportation changed dramatically because new technology made it possible to cover long distances in short times via steamships and railroads, and spawned the development of public transportation in urban areas. The initial effects were seen in the transportation of goods to the marketplace. However, other applications also had significant effects. One of Bismarck's strategies in utilizing war to unify Germany depended on the transportation of troops and weapons using railways, and so military applications were seen immediately. Public transportation enabled people to travel to work or work father away from home, so improved transportation mitigated some of the more unpleasant aspects of urbanization relative to industrialism. Transportation linked the world and facilitated emigration from areas disturbed by strife or economic crisis, with mass emigrations to the United States over the nineteenth century from Ireland, eastern Europe, and other areas. Steamship travel became cheap enough so that some could travel to other countries for seasonal work, such as Italian workers traveling to Argentina for agricultural work in spring and then back to Italy. Transportation also spawned recreational uses, including travel for pleasure, with ships allowing people to see other countries with greater ease. Pilgrims on religious travel could travel to regions previously unavailable. Railroads linked all the major European areas, and one could travel on the Trans-Siberian Railroad from the far east of Russia to the edge of western Europe.