Transportation Revolution

Question 1

1790 - The First Turnpike

Answer 1

• Lancaster Turnpike (Pennsylvania)
• 62 miles long
• Philadelphia to Lancaster
• had to pay a “toll” to use it

Question 2

Conestoga Wagons

Answer 2

• popular with those going west
• 1811 - the national road begins construction (for conestoga wagons)
• cumberland, maryland to vandalia, illinois (591 miles)
• later extensions to Baltimore and eventually st. louis

Question 3

steamboat craze

Answer 3

• robert fulton - created the steamboat
• clermont (first steambot)
• nyc to albany in 32 hours (150 miles)
• 1820 = 60 steamboats on the Mississippi River
• 1860 = 1000 steamboats on the Mississippi River
• transportation of goods and people

Question 4

erie canal

Answer 4

• link great lakes with hudson river
• called the “big ditch”
• man-made
• 363 miles long

Question 5

railroads

Answer 5

• the “iron horse”
• bny 1860 = 35,000 miles of track is down in the US
• the West will open up due to the railroad

Question 6

the pony express (1860)

Answer 6

• first large-scale mail system

- coast-to-coast in 10 days

Question 7

remember this

Answer 7

as transportaiton improves, the world becomes “smaller”. goods, services, and people can get from here to there quickly - thus making ti feel as if the world has shrunk

Question 8

the pony express delivered to what part of the nation

Answer 8

west

Question 9

conestoga wagons were needed due to a lack of

Answer 9

railroads