Exam #3 Flashcards
After the Lousiana Purchase who were the two individuals who worked together to attempt a monopoly in New Orleans, LA.?
Livingston and Fulton
T/F: The Mississippi is much bigger then the Hudson River?
True
In 1809 _______ goes to Pittsburgh to contract to build a Eastern style steamboat?
Fulton
Fulton and Livingston contracted to build the _________ and wanted to steam down the ________ to the Mississippi river to get to New Orleans.
New Orleans, Ohio river
In Jan. 1812 the ________ makes it to __________.
New Orleans, New Orleans
The 1st steamboat to transit the Mississippi river was the ___________.
New Orleans
The New Orleans leaves New Orleans and makes it as far as ________.
Natchez
Whats wrong with the Watts steam engine on the New Orleans?
Doesn’t have enough power to go up the river.
What was the hull design of the New Orleans?
V-Hull, she gets pretty beat up in the shallows
Who designed high pressure boilers?
John Stevens
Gibbons v. Ogden 1824- Supreme court case argues what?
that monopolies violate the inter-state trading
Trading between multiple states?
Inter-state trade
Trading within one state?
Intra-state trading
The Federal goverment has control over all trade on _________ in America.
rivers, this makes the federal goverment stronger
Henry Shreves builds the ________ in 1815?
Enterprise
