Flashcard Review - Mod 13.3.13.4

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Developed the steamboat in France and later the Clermont

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Robert Fulton

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The first full-sized commercial steamboat

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Clermont

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Reduced transportation costs and time

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Transportation Revolution

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Two main inventions of the Transportation Revolution

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Steamboats and Steam Locomotives

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Impact of railroads on the economy in the 19th century

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They allowed manufacturers and farmers to transport products across the US more efficiently.

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Industry that became one of the most powerful by 1860 in the US

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Railroads

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Replaced wood as the source of power for trains and steamboats

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Coal

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Built around sources of coal to fuel the transportation revolution

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Coal-mining towns

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Studied electricity and magnetism and perfected the telegraph to send information

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Samuel F. B. Morse

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A device to quickly send information over wires across great distances

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Telegraph