Chapter 10 Part 2 Review

“Improved Transportation ”

the first public road in present

day WV

Eastern Panhandle, from

Winchester to Martinsburg

Morgan Morgan’s home

made it possible to carry large

loads

Conestoga Wagon

A form of transportation that was faster and more

comfortable than the Conestoga wagon

Stagecoach

Also called the Midland Trail

Kanawha Turnpike ( U.S. 60)

Main route across western Virginia in the

early 1800s

James River and Kanawha Turnpike

connected Cumberland to Wheeling

National Road

Madonna of the TrailStatue on the NationalRoad at the edge of Wheeling Park

Designed the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike

Claudius Crozet

fee to use a road ,

to pay for the upkeep of the

road

tolls

Swinging barrier on a

toll road

pike

Rest stops for travelers and

animals, became social

centers

Old Stone House, Red Horse Tavern on the Northwest Turnpike Now U.S. 50

inns and

taverns

In what ways was social class not observed in the early taverns in America?

1. Rooms were rented on a “first come, first served” basis

2. Rank was not observed

3. Accommodations were shared

social center at White Sulfur

Springs

Greenbrier Hotel

main means of crossing large

rivers

ferries

Operated a ferry in the eastern panhandle

Robert Harper

a shallow place to cross a stream or river

ford

Raft with sides, could be covered, carried people or property, pushed by poles,

traveled downstream

Flatboats

flatboat

Built because of problems with the ferry at the

end of the National Road

Wheeling Bridge

Wheeling Suspension Bridge 1899

Bow shaped to cut through water, keel made it

possible to steer, powered by pushing poles, could go

upstream

Keelboats

Keelboat

European development was being used by American Bridge

designers and builders

Covered bridge

Mud River- MiltonCabell County

Dents RunMonongalia County

Fish CreekWetezel County

Indian CreekMonroe County

Locus CreekPocahontas County

What two of Chenoweth’s

bridges are still in use today?

Barrackville

Philippi

Barrackville - Philippi

WV’s premier

bridge builder

Lemuel Chenoweth

Join one river with another

canal

James River and Kanawha Canal

Could carry tons of goods, pulled by one mule, on the canal

Barges

Large boats powered by steam engines, capable of going

upstream and carrying large amounts of cargo and many

passengers

Steamboats

Developed his boat at Bath, Berkeley SpringsAdapted the steam

engine to water transportation

James Rumsey

Shepherdstown

Rumsey Monument at Shepherdstown

Built the first steamboat with boilers on the first deck, creating a very

shallow draft. He piloted the first steamboat upstream from New Orleans to Louisville Henry Shreve

In 1915 where could you walk

across the Kanawha River?

Morgan’s Landing

his steamboat, The Clermont, was demonstrated

from New York to Albany

Robert Fulton

one who provides the funds for an undertaking

financier

Helped finance construction of

steamboats to travel on the Ohio and Mississippi

rivers.Financed Robert Fulton’s

steamboat Nicholas J. Roosevelt

Was launched to ship goods on the Ohio and Miss. By Nicholas

Roosevelt, The first steamboat to

travel the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

“New Orleans”

Helped to keep cars on

the tracks

flanged

Steamboat built from

timber of old Fort Henry

“Washington”

Rev. War officer, built a steam locomotive in New Jersey

John Stevens

Built the steam engine Tom

Thumb that raced the stagecoach

Peter Cooper’s steam engine, Tom Thumb, lost a race with a stagecoach when a belt broke

Peter Cooper

railroad that existed in western Virginia before

the Civil War

B&O

Most outstanding engineering

marvel of the B&O

Tunnel at Tunnelton

First horizontal

boiler

“Lafayette”

Who laid the last stone in

the B&O

Charles Carroll

the last station at the end of a railroad line

terminus

Where the B&O terminated

Wheeling

B&O Railroad Building

Three problems

with ferries

Fees, interruptions, high water, dusk to dawn

Three problems with river

travel

Falls, rapids, low water level

suitable for a boat to sail on

navigable

Advantages of RR over canals

Weather, froze in winter, limited to connecting rivers

Did not freeze, did not require close care like horses, could go anywhere

List the different roles that the B&O played in the development of

WV

•Economic development

•Helped North in Civil War

•Helped create towns