industrial revolution part 1: transportation
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Transportation and the Industrial Revolution
• Focus Questions:
1. How did new inventions and changes in transportation methods affect westward expansion?
2. What were the advantages and disadvantages of these methods of transportation?
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1. Transportation Improvements and Westward Expansion
• Improvements in roads result in an increase in westward movement
• The introduction of steam power to river travel results in quicker upstream travel for passengers and gives farmers a cheaper way to transport goods from rural areas to urban markets
• The canal systems drop the price of shipping even further and connects western farms with eastern cities
• As transportation becomes cheaper and more reliable, populations in western territories increase and new states are created
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Corduroy Road
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Lancaster Turnpike
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The National Road
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Flatboats
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“Clermont”- Robert Fulton
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Flat-bottomed steamboat
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2. Comparing Three Transportation Methods
• Roads- More roads than canals and rivers, more access to remote areas. Poor quality, uncomfortable for travelers, expensive tolls, blocked by rivers.
• Rivers- Swift downstream, flatboat travel and swift upstream steamboat travel. Cheaper and more comfortable than roads. Slow upstream flatboat travel, dangerous steamboat travel.
• Canals- Access for farmers to port of New York, linked western and eastern cities, spurred on economic activity in U.S., difficult engineering problems to solve- expensive to build.
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The Erie Canal
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Connecting New York with the West
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Profile of the Erie Canal
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