History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1230 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Roads and Turnpikes
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The idea
The Cumberland Road, a national highway providing thousands with a route from Maryland to Illinois, was begun in eighteen eleven with federal funding.
In practice
New York State road mileage rising from one thousand in eighteen ten to four thousand by eighteen twenty.
Where people slip
The Cumberland Road is federally funded, which is the constitutional fight Unit 10 picks up.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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