TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION

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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION

• Turnpike a road that one must pay to use the
  money is used
• to pay for the road
• many had a base of crushed stone
• in muddy areas, corduroy roads were built of
  logs laid side
• by side

National Road (see pg. 316)
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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION Water Travel

• Problems
• eastern U.S. rivers flowed north-south, not
  east-west
• early steamboats were not powerful enough to
  withstand the
• strong currents and winds of large rivers or
  open bodies of
• water

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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTIONWater Travel Who
Developed Solutions?
ROBERT FULTON Developed The Clermont, the first
steamboat powerful enough to sail against strong
currents (see page 320)
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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTIONWater Travel Who
Developed Solutions?
De Witt Clinton Came up with a plan to link New
York City with the Great Lakes region by building
a canal with a system of locks
Canal An artificial waterway Lock In a canal,
an enclosure with gates at each end used in
raising or lowering Boats as they pass from level
to level
Erie Canal
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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTIONAdditional Water Travel
Clipper Ships
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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTIONRailroads

• Early trains pulled by horses
• Peter Cooper designed and built
• the first steam locomotive, the
• Tom Thumb

1866 Consolidated type locomotive, With 2-8-0
wheel arrangement
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OTHER TECHNOLOGY OF THE 1800s
SAMUEL MORSE Telegraph a device or system that
uses electric signals to transmit messages by a
code over wires Morse Code a system for
transmitting messages that uses a series of dots
and Dashes to represent the letters of the
alphabet, numbers, and punctuation
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COMMUNICATIONAmerican Language
Noah Webster developed a national language, an
American Education system, and wrote a speller
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OTHER TECHNOLOGY OF THE 1800s
McCormick Reaper 1834
John Deere steel-tipped plow 1837
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Elias Howes invented the first Sewing Machine