Transportation used to go from one place to another. Traveling before the modernized vehchile of today was very slow and often people and their families stayed in a particular region due to inability to travel. Now we can travel from city to city, country to county, or even into space quickly and efficiently. Politically modern transportation has helped canidites reach people in demographics that formally were out of reach by hitting the small blue collar towns on their trips they have captured many votes that previously they wouldn't have had. Socially modern transportation has let us move through out our society and even experience other cultures yet still we are able to return home to family and friends often. Economically modern transportation has boosted the oil market mostly own by large corporations but with the majority of us depending on oil for fueling our cars and airplanes etc. we tend to look the other way when "big oil' takes shortcuts even if those shortcuts have caused ecosystems to fail completely.
President John Adams created the United States Department of the Navy "<span>D)to expand the United States' control over territorial waters". The US needed ships to protect US shipping overseas and to protect its coastline. </span>
