Transport

Question 1

Time to travel from New York to Chicago?

Answer 1

1840 - 2 weeks
1860 - 2 days

Question 2

Type of road built in the early 19th century?

Answer 2

Turnpike

Question 3

What was the initial forms of transport west?

Answer 3

• Wagons
• Horseback
• Canoes
• Small boats
• On foot

Question 4

Why was the journey difficult?

Answer 4

• Rivers
• Mountain ranges
• Roads/tracks poor quality

Question 5

Cumberland road: dates

Answer 5

Commissioned: 1806
Started: 1811
Finished: 1837

Question 6

Other name for Cumberland road?

Answer 6

National road

Question 7

Where did the National Road / Cumberland Road link?

Answer 7

Atlantic - Ohio

Reached Illinois by 1930

Question 8

Where were steamboats important in the settlement of?

Answer 8

• Mississippi Valley
  Surrounding valleys

Question 9

When was the first commercial steamboat launched?

Answer 9

Hudson River 1807

Question 10

What happened to boats previously?

Answer 10

Broken up for fuel in New Orleans and sold for timbre

Question 11

Increase in steamboats on the Mississippi river?

Answer 11

1817 - 17
1836 - 361

Question 12

Increase in km of canals in Mississippi?

Answer 12

1816 - 160 km
1840 - 5000 km

Question 13

What rivers did the Cumberland road link?

Answer 13

Potomac and Ohio rivers

Question 14

When was the Erie Canal completed?

Answer 14

1825

Question 15

Where was Erie Canal?

Answer 15

Albany to Buffalo

Question 16

Who worked on the Erie Canal?

Answer 16

Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York

Question 17

How did freight charges drop after the construction of the Erie Canal?

Answer 17

19 cents a tonne / mile to 2 cents

Question 18

What lang grants were companies given during construction of the Transcontinental Railway?

Answer 18

120 m right of way
12 km2 of land either side
1.5 km for each track that was put down

Question 19

Federal government land grants and loans for the Transcontinental railroad?

Answer 19

$200 million
19 million hectares

Question 20

Time decrease from New York to Buffalo due to Erie Canal?

Answer 20

20 - 8 days

Question 21

Differences between the canals and the railroad?

Answer 21

Canals were cheaper
Railroads were faster

Question 22

When were there more miles of Railroads than canals?

Answer 22

1840

Question 23

What did the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company do in 1830?

Answer 23

Opened a 20km stretch for wagons to be pulled by horses.

Question 24

The transport of mail between St Louis and San Francisco?

Answer 24

Conducted by the Butterfield Overland Mail Company.
Only in 1857 was a contact drawn between the government and the company for mail to be transported

Question 25

How long did it take the Pony Express to travel the Plains?

Answer 25

10 days

Question 26

When was the Transcontinental telegraph line completed?

Answer 26

1861

Question 27

Time limitation with the development of the Railroads?

Answer 27

after Civil War in 1865

Only present in latter half of the period

Question 28

What other 4 transcontinental lines were completed by 1890s?

Answer 28

• The Great Northern from St Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington
• The Northern Pacific from Duluth, Minnesota to Portland, Oregon
• The Southern Pacific from New Orleans, Louisiana, to San Francisco, California
• The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line from Kansas City, Kansas to Los Angeles and San Diego, California.

Question 29

How many km of tacks were there west of the Mississippi River in 1900?

Answer 29

139,000 km

Question 30

Promotional literature:

Answer 30

‘land of milk and honey’

Question 31

What did the railroad companies offer to settlers?

Answer 31

• Temporary accommodation
• attractive long-term loans