Transportation Revolution of the 19th Century

The invention of the steam engine dramatically improved...

• speed

• economic opportunities

• comfort

• all of the above

Before steam was invented most people travelled

• locally only, never really leaving the farm

• by walking

• by horse and carriage

• all of the above

What describes inconvenient travel best?

• shared bedrooms in taverns when traveling long distances

• three miles per hour in roads with ruts

• barge on a canal

• two answers on the top row

Clippers and schooners are examples of

• a slow moving square rigged ship

• canal boats

• two new designs of ships that traveled faster than merchant ships

• carried smaller loads of cargo and passengers

One way to improve shipping in inland areas

• people built better roads

• canals were built alongside rivers and between bodies of water

• attached more horses to the wagon trains

• There was little expansion, people stayed in one place.

What was a negative consequence to the building of canals?

• expensive

• inefficient

• time consuming

• harmful to the environment

Where was the Erie Canal?

• Upstate New York

• Central Massachusetts

• Connecticut

• Rhode Island

The success of the Erie Canal prompted

• employment of more horses and mules

• a decrease in shipping

• the development of steam engines

• the building of other canals

What transportation industries were first to gain the benefits of steam power?

• factories

• ships

• railroads

• ships and railroads

Steamboats revolutionized travel in which part of the country first?

• New England

• Midwest and Prairie States

• West Coast

• Florida