How did the people in the revolutionary war travel?

Answer 1

Foot, horse, or railroad.

IMPROVEMNT

Foot, railroad, ship and horse.

Answer 2

Any long distance travel was best done by ship or boat. In the US most people lived on the coast or not too far inland, and those inland areas were usually settled because they were along a navigable river. Boats were by far the best means available to haul freight. There was not a lot of travel between the thirteen colonies, because in the eastern US most of the rivers tend to flow west to east, so most of them did not flow through more than one or two colonies (states). Travel on land was extremely difficult, because there were few roads, and except for a few streets in major cities all the roads were dirt. So these roads tended to be muddy quagmires, or dusty dried ruts. The options for travel on land were by horseback or horse (or ox) drawn wagon, or on foot. There were generally no bridges over rivers and streams. Only a few major rivers had an operating ferry boat. What roads there were led to fords of the rivers and streams. A ford is a place where the water is shallow enough that you can walk or ride your horse across through the water. There was only one road that purportedly connected all the colonies. This was the "post road", by which riders carried the mail, and over which the stage coaches traveled between a few major cities of the northeast, such as between Philadelphia and New York. It ran roughly about where I-95 is today, but it was not complete throughout, and contained many disconnected segments. In New York City it was the Boston Post Road, which is Broadway today. As an example of the difficult nature of travel, when John Adams was elected president, his wife Abigail traveled to join him in Washington. She took a boat from Massachusetts to Baltimore. Then she was to travel overland the forty miles from Baltimore to Washington. This was a two day trip. She had written ahead to friends who lived about halfway for a place to spend the night. When roads developed a big mudhole in them, people would turn out to the side and go around the mudhole, so as you went down an unfamiliar road you might come every little bit to a choice of five or six paths ahead of you, and you did not know which was the best way to go currently, and which were former detours around mudholes that were now dead ends. It was very easy to get lost. If you were in a a horse drawn coach, as Abigail Adams was on this trip, and went up a dead end, it could be very difficult to try to back out. Her driver became lost and she prepared to spend the night in the coach. The friends she had written to became worried when she wasn't at their house by dark, and sent people out to look for her, who found her party and guided them to the house. Now, this was the wife of the president-elect, traveling in the best style possible.

Answer 3

they traveled by truck u idiots