why were roads so common in early america when travel by boat was much cheaper? travel by roads was...
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Why were roads so common in early America when travel by boat was much cheaper? Travel by roads was faster than travel by ship travel by roads was safer than travel by ship roads were the only way to reach landlocked
areas Americans had too few merchant ships
roads were the only way to reach landlocked areas
What was America's first economically successful railroad? Baltimore & Ohio Wabash & Erie Lightning Boston Post
Baltimore & Ohio
What event was heralded by the words “What hath God wrought”? Opening of the Erie canal first voyage of McKay's Lightning the successful thirteen-mile trip of the tom
Thumb the first intercity telegraph message
the first intercity telegraph message
What was the fastest sailing ship ever built? ____________________
The clipper ship
A) DeWitt Clinton B) Robert Fulton C) F. B. Morse ___ steamboat
B) Robert Fulton
A) DeWitt Clinton B) Robert Fulton C) F. B. Morse
___ Erie Canal
DeWitt Clinton
A) DeWitt Clinton B) Robert Fulton C) F. B. Morse
___ telegraph
C) F. B. Morse
T/F ___ New York's Erie Canal proved to be a great investment.
True