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Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 10mins
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.
The National Road had toll stops, like the turnpike today. What are tolls, what were they used for?
Tolls were forms of payment, used to pay employees.
Tolls were forms of payment, used to keep the road in good conditions
Tolls were stops where travelers could relax, eat, etc, while traveling.
Tolls were payments, which were used to pay for expansion out west.
How did transportation POSITIVELY affect Ohio, as well as the United States? (Hint: there is more than one answer)
Transportation made it easier, safer, cheaper, and more convenient to travel
Transportation promoted westward expansion
Transportation provided people with jobs.
Transportation also increased trade.
How did Ohio become one of the wealthiest states in the country?
Ohio was a gateway for travel.
Ohio was an ideal place for people to go and live.
With the inventions of the train, roads, and canals.
