steamship

(noun)

A ship or vessel propelled by steam power.

Related Terms

  • Army Corps of Engineers
  • canal

Examples of steamship in the following topics:

  • Immigration Restriction League

    • The Bill also demanded an extension of fines to steamship companies for bringing imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, insane persons, or epileptics into the U.S.
  • The Transformation of Law

    • Ogden in 1824, in which Marshall overturned a monopoly granted by the New York state legislature to steamships operating between New York and New Jersey.
  • The Banana Wars

  • Carnegie and the Steel Industry

    • In 1888, Carnegie bought the rival Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a 425-mile long railway, and a line of lake steamships.
  • Gibbons v. Ogden

    • The decision overturned the New York state legislature's monopoly over certain steamships operating between New York and New Jersey.
  • Economic Development in the North

    • The Union controlled more than 80 percent of the shipyards, steamships, riverboats, and the navy.
  • The California Gold Rush

    • New methods of transportation developed as steamships came into regular service.
  • The Expansion of the Federal Government

    • The decision overturned the New York state legislature's monopoly over certain steamships operating between New York and New Jersey.
  • Globalization and the U.S.

    • Advances in transportation (such as the steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships) and in telecommunications infrastructure (including the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet, and mobile phones) have been major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities in nations around the world.
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