Transportation

What is the definition of transportation? (Hint: more than one answer)

• All the different ways people move from one place to another.

• How people, products, and ideas move from place to place.

• Movement of people, products, and ideas.

What are different types of land transportation, that we have today? (Hint: more than one answer)

• Bus

• Car

• Canal

• Train

Zane's Trace was the very first road to be built in what state?

• Nebraska

• California

• Ohio

• Virginia

Who was the ENGINEER who thought of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Theodore Judah

• Tucker Jacobs

• Thomas James

What was the National Road? (Hint: there is more than one answer)

• A road that only government officials get to use.

• Route 40

• First real highway built with federal funds

• A road that travels from Cumberland, MD to Vandalia, IL.

What does transcontinental mean?

• Going all around the world.

• Going from one side of the continent to the other.

• Traveling to multiple continents.

Who are the Big Four?

• 4 men who invested in the Transcontinental Railroad.

• The 4 people who invented the railroad.

Why did the Big Four invest in the Transcontinental Railroad?

• They wanted to invest for no reason in particular.

• They were forced to invest.

• In hopes of getting more money in return, make a profit.

• They would earn money from the Gold Rush.

A canal is a waterway made by people that connects two bodies of water. What is one of the canals in Ohio that connects Lake Erie to the Ohio River?

• Ohio-Erie Canal

• Wabash-Erie Canal

• Champlain-Erie Canal

• Miami-Erie Canal

Flatboats and keelboats were two different types of boats used on canals. What is the correct difference between the boats?

• Keelboats went up and downstream, flatboats only went downstream.

• Flatboats used a sail and wide-bladed oar to help steer, while keelboats only used the oar.

• Keelboats were long with a flat bottom and square ends, while flatboats were wide and curved.