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National Postal Museum: Rail, Sail, or Overland Mail

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Audio and animated visual presentation on the history of how mail travels, starting in the 1850s. This activity lets you see how quickly you can carry twenty bags of mail from Philadelphia to New Orleans using various methods of travel.

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1800's transportation, mail transportation railroad, mail transportation riverboat, mail transportation stagecoach, mail transportation steamship, national postal museum, rail, sail, or overland mail, smithsonian, smithsonian institute, smithsonian institution, a nation expanding west (1790-1860)

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Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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