NC Transportation and Communication Changes

What transportation change happened in 1929?

• Ford made a factory in Charlotte

• Planes moved passengers

• Planes deliver mail

• There were two railroads in NC

What were locomotives faster than?

• Horse wagons

• Airplanes

• Automobiles

• Mrs. Furr's motorcycle

When was the telegraph created?

• 1837

• 1916

• 1840

• 1879

How did the Europeans get to the Mountain Region?

• Boat

• Automobile

• Airplane

• They didn't - it was the coastal plains.

What big transportation change happened in 1903?

• Mail was delivered in NC

• Assembly lines made cars cheaper.

• The Highway Repair Act

• The first airplane flight!

The first _________ were expensive because they were made one at a time.

• Automoblies

• Airplanes

• Trains

• Telegraphs

1879...

• the first telephones were used in NC.

• the first telegraph sent a message in NC.

• there were two railroads in NC.

• the Wright Brothers were the first in flight.

__________ made telephones different than telegraphs.

• Electric signals

• Voice messages

• Messages

• Paper letters