 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