Social Studies Chapter 10, Section 2

Question 0

Corduroy roads

Answer 0

Roads consisting of logs side by side

Question 1

Turnpikes

Answer 1

Toll roads

Question 2

National Road

Answer 2

A road that Congress funded that went from Maryland to Illinois because when Ohio became a state, they asked for a road

Question 3

River travel advantages

Answer 3

It was more comfortable, faster, easier, and the boats could carry more

Question 4

River travel problems

Answer 4

Rivers flow in one direction(north to south) and don’t go east to west

Question 5

Robert Fulton

Answer 5

An inventor who invented the steamboat and went in his steamboat from New York City to Albany in 32 hours, usually it takes 4 days

Question 6

Clermont

Answer 6

The name of the steamboat that Robert Fulton invented

Question 7

Advantages of steamboats

Answer 7

Steam pushes the boat so it can go against the current

Question 8

DeWitt Clinton

Answer 8

An investor who invested in a canal to go from New York City to the Great Lakes that people would have to pay to get on and hired a group of workers to dig it

Question 9

Erie Canal

Answer 9

The 363 mile canal that linked Albany to Buffalo and connected the East and the Midwest

Question 10

Locks

Answer 10

Separate compartments in a canal where water levels were raised or lowered so specific ships could get by a place where the water level changed

Question 11

Life in the West

Answer 11

People would settle near big lakes and rivers so they could get their goods to the ocean and they also lived by people that were from the same place as them