steamboats on the red

Steamboats on the Red

Steamboat Facts:

Invented in 1700sTravel was dangerousJames Watt-engine1st steamboat-John Fitch1st working steamboat-Robert FultonCarried mostly freight in ND

Paddlewheel-bicycle wheel40 feet long5-8 mphRuled trade in 1800s and early 1900sDemise-railroad

Vocabulary

freight - supplies and equipment

Rival-someone you are against

Barge-flat boat

Frontier-land that is unexplored

Cheapest-lowest cost

Dismantle-take it apart

Shallow-not very deep

Oil monopoly-one owner

Monopoly-no other one like it

Fireboat-Native American term for steam-boat.

Merchant-store owner

Meandering-goes where it wants

Mackinaw-early boat

Metis-French man marries a Native American

Chapters 1-2 Steamboats on the Red

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Video

Discuss worksheet:

Northrup 1909 $1000

Freight money water

$26,000 cheapest

Hudson Bay Company 1859

EngineersBuoyance Density

6” by 8” aluminum foil

5 minutes

Test run

Writing-You are the captain of the steamboat going up the Red River.

Inquiry- You must turn the steamboat around: 40 feet in a 25 foot space use blocks and practice. Draw a diagram.

You are a passenger on the steamboat-Write about your trip up the Red River.