from "Port Cities"
“By the late 1800s, railroads crisscrossed America. Train tracks could reach places where rivers didn’t go ,so fewer goods traveled by water. The age of the river boat was over” (9).
from "Port Cities"
"New Orleans had a bumpy beginning. But like a riverboat steaming down the Mississippi, New Orleans kept on growing to become a great port city for America-and the world" (16).
from "Route 66: America's Main Street"
"But more than any other road, Route 66 is famous in American history" (1).
from "Route 66: America's Main Street"
"Then, during the 1930s, Americans endured the difficult economic decade of the Great Depression " (5).