What is one significant way transportation changed in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century?
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The economy and industry grew steadily over the course of the 19th century, albeit more rapidly after the end of the civil war (waged between 1861 and 1865). The annual average per capita product growth rate was 1.3 percent until the war, and 1.8 percent in the later stage.
The industrialization process was favored by the availability of natural resources and the existence of an immense internal market, with an extraordinary increase in population, which went from less than 4,000,000 inhabitants in 1790 to 90,000,000 in 1910, thanks to massive immigration and high rates of vegetative growth, combined with a constant process of technological and organizational innovation, which gave the United States sources of advantage over its European competitors.