READING CHECK || "Transportation Advancement of the 1800's"

READING CHECK || "Transportation Advancement of the 1800's"

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10 Qs

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READING CHECK || "Transportation Advancement of the 1800's"

READING CHECK || "Transportation Advancement of the 1800's"

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Cumberland Road connected the newly settled interior areas of the United States to the ports along the Atlantic coast. Built between 1811 and 1818, the road crossed which major GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE of the eastern United States?

Great Smoky Mountains
Potomac River
Ohio River
Appalachian Mountains

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following MOST influenced the construction of the first toll roads in the northeast part of America?

greater availability of federal funds to build roads
merchants desiring better roads to transport their goods
lower costs to transport goods on roads
decreased federal funding for building roads

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the building of canals affect cities?

Cities were moved so that canals could be built.
Cities were destroyed so that canals could be built.
Cities that were along the canals grew larger.
Cities that were along the canals became poor.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What caused an immediate increase in the shipment of such goods as grain and lumber from the Midwest to the Eastern seaboard in the first half of the 1800s?

The first toll road was built.
New York City became the leading commercial port in the nation.
The Erie Canal was built.
Chicago, Illinois, became the great transport hub of the Midwest.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Many doubted Governor Clinton when it was proposed, but no one expected the impact the Erie Canal would have on commerce during the early 1800's. The Erie Canal, flowing through upstate New York, was COMPLETED in what year?

1794
1817
1825
1840

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

By the 1840's which eastern AMERICAN CITY had become the nation's largest commercial port due to the construction of the Erie Canal?

Buffalo, New York
Chicago, Illinois
Hartford, Connecticut
New York City, New York

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the early railroads effect America's transportation system?

They allowed for the shipment of goods to be less costly.
They allowed for the first commercial shipping in the country.
They ended the use of canals for the shipment of goods.
They helped the government take control of commercial shipping.

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