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What were the advantages of shipping goods by steamboat?

What were the advantages of shipping goods by steamboat?-example-1

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Compared to other types of craft used at the time, such as flatboats, keelboats, and barges, steamboats greatly reduced both the time and expense of shipping goods to distant markets. For this reason, they were enormously important in the growth and consolidation of the U.S. economy before the Civil War.
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Answer:

B) made shipping cheaper and faster

Step-by-step explanation:

The main advantages of shipping goods by steamboat are fast and cheap shipping.

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