9/12 Homework - 12.3

• Transportation Revolution is

• a time period in US history that hurt our economy.

• • a period of rapid growth in new types of transportation.

• Transportation Revolution created

• unemployment

• • a boom in business by reducing shipping costs and time.

• • boom in business by increasing shipping costs and time.

• During this time,_________were able to travel rapidly and efficiently across the United States. (best answer!)

• goods

• goods, people, and information

• people

• information

Robert Fulton...

• invented the steamboat

• invented Tom Thumb

• invented the water frame

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) was...

• Supreme Court case that made it illegal to trade between the states.

• The Supreme Court case that reinforced that the federal government had authority to regulate trade between states.

The U.S. economy surged as railroads moved goods cheaply to distant markets.

• true

• false

Peter Cooper raced his Tom Thumb locomotive against... (best answer!)

• a horse drawn rail car

• a horse

• a motor car

• a person

Who won Peter Cooper's race? (best answer)

• The horse drawn railcar

• The horse

• a townsman

What is it called when a country takes pride in their own country.

• Ownership

• Nationalism

• Creationism

• Pride-ism

• Wood replaced coal as a source of fuel as trains grew more popular.

• true

• false