americans move westward chapter 11 section 2 pg.337
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Americans Move WestwardChapter 11
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Americans Move WestwardChapter 11
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Western Routes
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The Great Wagon Road
The Wilderness Road
The Cumberland Gap
The Cumberland Gap
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Flatboats were used to move people and goods in the rivers instead of using the poorly
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Flatboats were used to move people and goods in the rivers instead of using the poorly
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Flatboats were used to move people and goods in the rivers instead of using the poorly
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For years, Americans had been pushing farther and farther west in search of better farm land than could be found in New England.Many settlers chose to settle in the Ohio River
Valley. There were two main paths or trails that settlers used at first: The Great Wagon Road which connected to The Wilderness Road which led settlers through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky and Tennessee. Settlers took other ways, including rivers or the
Great Lakes if they were going around the Appalachian
Mountains instead of over them.
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Americans Move WestwardNew States
So many people were moving west at one time that the population of the original 13 states actually declined or went down. This allowed for the addition of eight new states bringing the total up to 22.
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Improvements to Roads
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Improvements to RoadsSome of the early roads (if you can call them that) were only wide enough for one wagon. They were often muddy and tree stumps were left behind which could damage a wheel or axle. As more people moved west, American needed to improve its roads.
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Improvements to RoadsOne improvement was the turnpike or toll road. Private companies (at first) and later the government made roads with gravel and flat, top stones to make travel smoother and faster, but you had to pay a fee to use them. Out in the wilderness, people built corduroy roads made of logs to get over swampy, muddy, sections of trails.
Turnpikes and Corduroy RoadsA turnpike was a road built by a private company
that charged a toll to travel on them. They used a gate or turnpike to stop the travelers at certain points to pay the toll.
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Turnpikes and Corduroy RoadsA turnpike was a road built by a private company
that charged a toll to travel on them. They used a gate or turnpike to stop the travelers at certain points to pay the toll.
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Turnpike or Toll Road
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Turnpike or Toll Road
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The Lancaster Turnpike
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The Lancaster Turnpike
The Lancaster Turnpike that linked Philadelphia with the city of Lancaster was a smooth gravel road with flat stones on top.
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Americans Move WestwardThe Lancaster Turn Pike (Pennsylvania)
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Americans Move WestwardImprovements to Roads
Turnpikes and Corduroy Roads
Corduroy Material Corduroy Road
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Corduroy Roads
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Americans Move WestwardImprovements to Roads
Turnpikes and Corduroy Roads
Corduroy roads were built from trees laid across the road. They were found mostly in rural areas and made to get across muddy areas. They were much easier and cheaper to make than a gravel road.
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Americans Move WestwardTurnpikes and Corduroy Roads
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Americans Move WestwardThe National Road
The National Road was the first road in the United States paid for by tax money. This started the trend of government funded highways that we still use today.
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Americans Move WestwardSteam Transport
Flatboats were great for hauling goods downstream, but it took a long time to paddle, push, or pull them back upstream.
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Fitch and Fulton
All the way back in 1787, John Fitch showed people a plan for how a steam engine could power a boat. He eventually built one, but his business was unsuccessful.
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Fitch and Fulton
Much later, Robert Fulton, probably inspired by Fitch’s ideas also built a steamboat named The Clermont. His steamboat business became a success.
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The Age of Steamboats
Inspired by Fulton’s success, soon many other steamboats were built and were chugging up and down America’s rivers hauling passengers and cargo.
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The Age of Steamboats
The Danger of Steamboats
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Fires
Collisions
Explosions
Newcomen Steam Engine
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Steam Engine
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Newcomen Steam Engine
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Steam Engine
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Watt Steam Engine
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Steam Engine
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Boiler for Steam Engine
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This is NOT in the textbook, but without the steam engine, there would be no
steamboat
The Steam Engine
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This is NOT in the textbook, but without the steam engine, there would be no
steamboat
The Steam Engine
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Americans Move WestwardThe Canal Boom
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Americans started building canals to connect rivers together and to connect rivers to lakes because you could carry more and heavier cargo quicker, cheaper, and easier than using wagons on roads.
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A Canal Boom
A Canal Boom
Canal = an artificial channel filled with water that connects two bodies of water.
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Americans Move WestwardThe Canal Boom
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Americans Move WestwardBuilding the Erie Canal
Thomas Jefferson
New Yorkers wanted to connect their rivers, the Mohawk River and Hudson River with the Great Lakes. The only way to do that was to dig a series of canals about 350 miles long.
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Americans Move WestwardBuilding the Erie Canal
New Yorkers wanted to connect their rivers, the Mohawk River and Hudson River with the Great Lakes. The only way to do that was to dig a series of canals about 350 miles long.
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Dewitt Clinton Governor of New York
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Dewitt Clinton Governor of New York
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To make the job go quicker,
a stump-puller
was developed.
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Americans Move WestwardBuilding the Erie Canal
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Americans Move WestwardBuilding the Erie Canal
An Instant Success
Even though some people though it couldn’t (or shouldn’t) be done, New York Governor, DeWitt Clinton convinced people to go ahead with the Erie Canal project. When it was finished, it was a great success.
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Americans Move WestwardBuilding the Erie Canal
An Instant Success
Governor Dewitt ClintonCelebrates the Opening of
The Erie Canal
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The Erie Canal